[maryz]

The very well-being of the northern food chain is coming under threat from global warming, land development, and industrial pollutants in the marine environment.

LOL! Couldn't quite make it through without bringing in global warming! Once the article started its hit on the Atkins Diet (more than the brief mention that would have made the point!), I was afraid it would deteriorate into unbridled PC!

[lepton]

HALIBUT BONES You can be sure, however, that Atkins devotees aren’t routinely eating seal and whale blubber. Besides the acquired taste problem, their commerce is extremely restricted in the United States by the Marine Mammal Protection Act, says Bruce Holub, a nutritional biochemist in the department of human biology and nutritional sciences at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

So...it's illegal to eat as healthily as the Eskimos.