SOUTHOLD "Brecknock Hall and Whaling," an exhibition of whaling artifacts.
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SOUTHOLD "Brecknock Hall and Whaling," an exhibit of whaling artifacts.
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Commercial whaling was banned in a 1986 International Whaling Commission moratorium.
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Commercial whaling was banned under a 1986 International Whaling Commission moratorium.
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Marine mammal conservationists said indigenous whaling was mired in commercial whaling politics.
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Yet Japan, under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - himself from a whaling district - left the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and returned to commercial whaling on July 1.
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Japan is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Sunday and resuming commercial whaling a day later after roughly three decades, during which its widely reviled "scientific research" whaling program was decried by opponents as commercial whaling in disguise.
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And some have: One sectoral body, the International Whaling Commission, for example, introduced a moratorium on whaling in the 230s under pressure from non-whaling member countries.
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In 22017, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) announced a worldwide moratorium on commercial whaling.
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It began scientific whaling in 1987, a year after an international whaling moratorium began.
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Japanese politicians have long supported whaling, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is from a whaling town.
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Japan began whaling for scientific research a year after a 1986 ban on commercial whaling, aiming to gather what it called crucial population data, but it abandoned commercial whaling in 1988.
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Frydenberg said Australia will continue to press its strong opposition to whaling at the International Whaling Commission.
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In 1982, the International Whaling Commission invoked a ban on commercial whaling, but scientific research was exempted.
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Whaling advocates, such as Yoshifumi Kai, head of the Japan Small-type Whaling Association, celebrated the hunt.
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The International Whaling Commission allows each nation to remain sovereign over its own whaling laws, said Scheiber.
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Japan started what it calls "scientific whaling" in 1987, a year after an international whaling moratorium took effect.
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Over the last three decades, whales were protected by the 1986 International Whaling Commission moratorium that banned commercial whaling.
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The country withdrew from the International Whaling Commission last year to be able to resume commercial whaling in 2019.
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Japan's decision followed the IWC's latest rejection of its bid to resume commercial whaling at a September meeting, which Suga said showed it was impossible to bridge the gap between whaling advocates and anti-whaling members.
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The prospect of growth in the industry is far from certain, both environmentalists and whaling advocates say, but Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose district includes a major whaling center, has long pushed to resume commercial whaling.
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In 1982, the International Whaling Commission -- an intergovernmental body dedicated to conserving whales -- proposed an international moratorium on commercial whaling.
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Japan defies whaling ban: The country said today that it would withdraw from an international agreement and resume commercial whaling.
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Japanese officials asserted that it provided vital population information, but anti-whaling nations said it was commercial whaling in disguise.
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Tokyo (CNN)Days of debate over the future of whaling will come to a head Friday when members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) vote on a Japanese proposal which could lead to the resumption of commercial whaling.
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Tokyo dropped out of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on June 30 and resumed commercial whaling on July 1 this year.
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In 1986 the countries of the International Whaling Commission, of which Japan was one, had agreed to a moratorium on whaling.
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It's hard to predict where whaling will go from here, but it may be hard to sustain commercial whaling without demand.
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The New Bedford Whaling Museum is working to put the 1,275-foot "Whaling Voyage Round the World" panorama back on view.
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An international moratorium on commercial whaling was established in the 1980s, but indigenous whaling for subsistence and cultural reasons was still allowed.
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Alaskan ship captains can expense costs for whaling as charitable deductions, even though no money goes to charity and whaling is illegal.
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Some influential lawmakers' constituencies include whaling communities, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's election district is home to the whaling port of Shimonoseki.
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The decision to withdraw from the IWC followed its latest rejection of Japan's bid to resume commercial whaling at a September meeting, which Suga said showed it was impossible to bridge the gap between whaling advocates and anti-whaling members.
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Sea Shepherd is best known globally for its direct action against Japan's whaling in the Antarctic, engaging the whaling fleet boldly at sea.
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A moratorium on commercial whaling took effect in the early 1980s, though some whaling regulations had been imposed as early as the 1940s.
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For years the research loophole was the government's last-ditch effort to keep the moribund whaling industry alive, but supporters got a boost in 2017 when the Abe administration enshrined continued research whaling, with a view to reviving commercial whaling, into law.
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Influential lawmakers in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party whose constituencies include whaling communities have long lobbied for a resumption of commercial whaling.
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Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling, the country's government announced Wednesday, in a move that has outraged environmentalists.
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Japan said it would defy an international ban and restart commercial whaling in its territorial waters, although it promised to stop whaling near Antarctica.
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Japan's withdrawal from the Commission comes after years of pressure from the country's whaling industry and prevalence of whaling tradition in Japan, Reuters reported.
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A global whaling moratorium was imposed in 1986, but Japan then began what it called scientific research whaling in the North Pacific and Antarctic.
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The New Bedford Whaling Museum completed the conservation of America's longest painting, "Purrington-Russell Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Round the World" (1848).
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"The whaling moratorium, where they stopped whaling in 1978, came just in time to prevent this biodiversity from being genetically more monotonous," he said.
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In 1988, two years after an international moratorium on commercial whaling began, Japan started scientific research whaling in the North Pacific and the Antarctic.
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Any of these measures would make it easier for the Japanese and their pro-whaling allies to push for the resumption of commercial whaling.
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After roughly 30 years of what it has called scientific research whaling, which saw several hundred minke whales taken annually in the Antarctic and North Pacific, Japan in December announced it would leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling on July 1.
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Inside, the man revealed himself to be an anti-whaling activist and threatened to harm Mr. McCarty's granddaughter if he continued whaling, Mr. McCarty said.
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For a start, Japan will no longer send ships on "scientific" whaling expeditions to the Antarctic, a practice criticised internationally as commercial whaling in disguise.
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In 2014, an International Court of Justice ruling placed a temporary halt to Japan's whaling activities, saying its Antarctic whaling project is not a scientific endeavor.
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Photo: Itsuo Inouye (AP)Japan announced this week it will be splitting from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in order to renew its commercial whaling practices.
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In 2014, the United Nation's International Court of Justice ordered Japan to halt its whaling program, over concerns of its whaling activities in the Antarctic region.
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Before Japan's withdrawal from International Whaling Commission, it caught 596 whales with a "scientific research" special permit in the 2017-18 whaling season, according to the commission.
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Critics said the programme was simply commercial whaling in disguise, after the meat of animals taken in scientific whaling ended up on store shelves and in restaurants.
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Earlier this year, Japan's attempts to overturn a global commercial whaling ban failed when anti-whaling nations defeated a Japanese proposal that would have allowed whale hunts.
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"We need to cultivate the resources, the tactics and the ability to significantly shut down the illegal whaling operations of the Japanese whaling fleet," Mr. Watson said.
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Critics said the program was simply commercial whaling in disguise, after the meat of animals taken in scientific whaling ended up on store shelves and in restaurants.
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Illustrated whaling journals are now on display in the New Bedford Whaling Museum's exhibition "Mapping Ahab's 'Storied Waves' — Whaling and the Geography of 'Moby-Dick,'" about cartographic resources that Herman Melville's vengeful main character would have used to find the white behemoth that bit off his lower leg.
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As a consequence of Wednesday's decision, that scientific whaling will end because the international whaling convention requires countries that do so join the IWC, according to the ABC.
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Japanese commercial fishermen caught their first whale since Japan withdrew from the International Whaling Commission, an intergovernmental body which has maintained a moratorium on whaling for 30 years.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is from a whaling district, he said, and also noted that both a strong political board and whaling union keep the practice afloat.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose district includes the old whaling center of Shimonoseki, has long campaigned to restart commercial whaling, but the industry's future is far from clear.
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The story starts in 2000, when most members of the International Whaling Commission agreed to a moratorium on commercial whaling around the world (save for Norway and Iceland).
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Mr. Dyer said that he had "not yet been able to connect a whaling scene drawn in a journal with a whaling scene engraved on a whale's tooth."
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Context: The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 21889, but Japanese hunters continued to kill whales in the Antarctic for what the country said was scientific research.
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Mr. Suga said the International Whaling Commission focused too much on conservation and had failed to develop a sustainable whaling industry, which is one of its stated goals.
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The country withdrew from the International Whaling Commission this year, ended its Antarctic whale hunt and resumed commercial whaling in the waters of its own exclusive economic zone.
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Japan respected the whaling commission's 1986 "moratorium" on whaling for over 30 years, before exercising its legal right to withdraw from the I.W.C. at the end of 2018.
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Japan announced last year it was leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and would resume commercial whaling on July 1, sparking global condemnation and fears for the world's whales.
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Japan joined the IWC in 1951, six years after the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was signed to found the group, aimed at sustainably managing commercial whaling.
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Australia, New Zealand anti-whaling groups say Japan's exploiting a loophole in the 1986 international ban on commercial whaling, which allows whales to be killed if it's for scientific research.
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In the meantime, Japan controversially skirts the ban to pursue "scientific whaling" (the 1946 international convention that regulates whaling includes a clause permitting them to be killed for scientific purposes).
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"With the populations of whales back in the days of industrial whaling, the major single threat they faced was whaling," Australian IWC Commissioner Nick Gales told the ABC in September.
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Though Japan's post-Christmas announcement sparked widespread condemnation and fears for the world's whales, the prospect of growth in whaling is far from certain, both environmentalists and whaling advocates say.
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That charade ends with Japan's withdrawal from the whaling commission, which is good news for whales off Antarctica, since Japan said it would limit commercial whaling to its own territorial waters.
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A 1986 global whaling moratorium made whale a pricey food that rarely appears on family tables or in ordinary supermarkets, with vendors relying on Japan's scientific research whaling for their supply.
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As does what Dyer referred to as "one of the greatest whaling prints of all time" — an action-packed scene showing the stages of whaling, from the hunt to the butchering.
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The decision, some experts said, allows Japan to save the money it spends to support Antarctic whaling while taking a tough pro-whaling stance - a matter of national pride for some conservatives.
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Whaling loophole Sea Shepherd says the photographs it released are the first documenting the killing of whales by Japanese whaling fleets since the International Court of Justice ruled against the program in 2014.
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He doesn't mention the fascinating figures of the black whaling captains, whaling being one of the rare professions in pre-Civil War life where black men were sometimes trusted in positions of command.
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The Ironborn also rely on fishing and whaling for food.
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And when it comes to whaling, humpbacks are pretty vulnerable.
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Whaling will continue, but there will be less of it.
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Rather, Watson argues modern whaling is driven by political influence.
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Critics said the it was simply commercial whaling in disguise.
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Japan had just announced it was going to resuming whaling.
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It seems like Japan's whaling program has to end eventually.
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The average whaling boat spent over three years at sea.
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For Japan, whaling has long been about more than economics.
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But whaling "has become a sensitive, nationalistic topic," she said.
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The next meeting of the International Whaling Commission, which takes place in September in Brazil, will provide an opportunity for the global anti-whaling community to pursue stronger oversight of the "Newrep-A" program.
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Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd published a photograph on Sunday of a dead minke whale, which appeared to have been punctured by a harpoon, on the deck of the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru.
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Whaling historically thrived in the western Japanese town of Taiji - made notorious for the dolphin hunts featured in the Oscar-winning movie "The Cove" - until its whaling fleet was devastated in an 1878 storm.
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Whaling historically thrived in the western Japanese town of Taiji - made notorious for the dolphin hunts featured in the Oscar-winning movie "The Cove" - until its whaling fleet was devastated in an 203 storm.
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Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling from July, it said on Wednesday, abandoning a decades-old campaign to persuade the commission to allow it to hunt whales commercially.
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The historic town — a National Historic Landmark in its entirety — has over 800 pre-Civil War-era buildings, plenty of fine dining, and a whaling museum that explores Nantucket's past as the world's whaling capital.
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The 520 "Purrington-Russell Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Round the World," owned by the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts, stretches 1,275 feet in length and stands eight and a half feet tall.
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"Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling agreed, responding, "Just made my day Pam.
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This is less violence and has less to do with whaling.
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It would also force Japan to create new regional whaling structures.
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Australia and other anti-whaling nations had vehemently opposed the move.
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Japan now joins Iceland and Norway in openly conducting commercial whaling.
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The hell is that wizard doing whaling on that tower, anyway?
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This commission halted commercial whaling over 30 years ago, in 1986.
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Seconds later, James started whaling on the man, punch after punch.
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The ever-dwindling demand means an uncertain outlook for Japan's whaling.
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Whaling has long faced intense criticism, but Mr. Loftsson seems unshakable.
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I was raised in a historic whaling village on Long Island.
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The draft also contains no reference to Japan's commercial whaling program.
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Commercial whaling was outlawed in South America and Antarctica in 1994.
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Other panoramas exist — such as the 1,275-foot "Whaling Voyage Round the World" now being conserved at the New Bedford Whaling Museum — but cycloramas are distinct in their 360-degree displays in specially-designed circular architecture.
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KUSHIRO, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese whaling ships prepared on Sunday to set to sea, with crews gathering on decks in a northern port a day ahead of Japan's first commercial whaling hunt in more than 30 years.
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But just up the street a whaling museum — its entrance framed by whale bones — and a weather-worn cemetery populated with departed whaling captains are reminders that this area was once economically dependent on the ocean.
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Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru with a captured minke whale on deck.
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Activists have been closely watching the activities of whaling company Hvalur hf.
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Abe's own electoral district includes Shimonoseki, a whaling port in western Japan.
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International Whaling Commission regulations grant the community a combined quota of 25.
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About 13 billion yen ($47.05 million) was budgeted for whaling in 2019.
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So the government plans to allow whaling in Japan's huge territorial waters.
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Illegal whaling caused a downturn in the southern species in the 1960s.
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Since then, nearly every nation in the world has stopped commercial whaling.
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About 5.1 billion yen ($47.31 million) was budgeted for whaling in 2019.
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Scientific research gets exemption from the 1986 international ban on commercial whaling.
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Norway and Iceland continue whaling efforts in objection to the IWC moratorium.
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"My comment was not intended to be racist at all," Whaling said.
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At Grytviken whaling station, in South Georgia, he slept beside his grave.
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Tokyo and its pro-whaling allies had no immediate comment on Tuesday.
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Whaling logbooks may contain clues about how and when this trend began.
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Today, Iceland and Norway are the only countries that allow commercial whaling.
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Tough whaling laws are making the traditional talismans tough to come by.
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"We have a heritage of traditional whaling," said Abashiri's mayor, Yoichi Mizutani.
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About 5.1 billion yen ($47.05 million) was budgeted for whaling in 2019.
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"They controlled what we could hunt and what we could eat," said Roy Nageak, a retired whaling captain, referring to when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) set quotas on catching bowhead whales in 1977 to protect existing stocks.
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Japan, which has long maintained that most whale species are not endangered and that eating whale is part of its culture, began what it calls "scientific whaling" in 1987, a year after an international whaling moratorium took effect.
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Whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the South Atlantic won't be getting a vast, eight-million square mile sanctuary after the whaling nations of Iceland, Japan, and Norway voted against the proposal at an international whaling meeting on Tuesday.
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The prints at the New Bedford Whaling Museum offer insight into the industry before it grew to an industrial scale, presenting a bygone era when whaling practices were deeply connected with the community and even to religious beliefs.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will resume commercial whaling from July in its waters and exclusive economic zone while ending its controversial hunts in the Antarctic, it said on Wednesday, as it announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
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Japan was lifting a 21980-year ban on commercial whaling in its waters.
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When asked about the resumption of commercial whaling, none of the tourists objected.
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Whaling may be coming home, but its (mostly hidden) subsidies are surely dwindling.
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But Japan still continues to receive the most criticism for its whaling missions.
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Jack Whaling, a 39-year-old painter, said he is voting for Trump.
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Iceland and Norway — the other two whaling nations — also kill whales with impunity.
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His whaling pictures probably used to be more colorful than they are now.
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Only Senator Elizabeth Warren's campaign responded to inquiries about the Makah whaling treaty.
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Its aged whaling mothership is in need of a costly replacement or refit.
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The three-story colonial mansion was built in 1843 by a whaling captain.
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"The whaling industry has been ingesting a lot of taxpayers' money," she said.
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The following year, the European Union led an international protest against Iceland's whaling.
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Pro-whaling nations such as Japan, Norway and Russia voted against the proposal.
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Whaling logbooks often have poor handwriting, worse spelling and erratic punctuation, Arthur says.
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Ichihara now runs a whale restaurant in the Wada district of Minamiboso, on the Pacific coast just east of Tokyo, and should be celebrating Japan's decision to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resume commercial whaling on July 2000.
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A fleet of five whaling boats departed the northern port of Kushiro on Monday.
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In 2014, the International Court of Justice ruled that Japan should halt Antarctic whaling.
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Over channel 72, these volunteers communicate with whaling camps far out on the ice.
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When she was your age, she's spent a month on a Russian whaling boat.
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Given the widespread ban on whaling, that would be illegal in most countries today.
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An abandoned whaling station on Whalers Bay, on Deception Island off the Antarctic peninsula.
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Here comes one now, rattling catastrophically, like Max Roach whaling on the high hat.
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That all began to change after the International Whaling Commission banned hunting in 20143.
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"It's clear that there is simply no place today for commercial whaling," Kline added.
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Japan withdrew from the commission in December and said it would resume commercial whaling.
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Japan: The country announced it would resume commercial whaling in July, despite international condemnation.
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Critics considered the research a sham, little more than a cover for commercial whaling.
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Commercial whaling, it turns out, is not so popular among the whale-watching crowd.
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For Mr. Loftsson and his supporters, whaling is no different than agriculture or fisheries.
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That supply was cut off when Tonga banned whaling by royal decree in 1978.
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A few nations, including Japan, have special research permits that allow for some whaling.
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In 2014, Japan's Antarctic whaling was ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice.
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But having samples from before the whaling era would help refine historical population estimates.
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It has been used for centuries for whaling, hunting, and, more recently, meteorological monitoring.
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"There's potential for $9, $10, $11,000 an acre," Whaling said about American hemp production.
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The International Whaling Commission, of which Iceland is member, prohibited killing whales in 1986.
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Not like the logs of whaling ships that Old Weather began transcribing in 2015.
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By the time whaling was banned in 1935, they were hunted nearly to extinction.
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In the boom years of the 1950s, there were seven whaling companies in Abashiri.
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Thus it is now a valuable record of New Bedford and the whaling industry.
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They contrast starkly with artworks that depict Yankee whaling, and the differences are telling.
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SYDNEY, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Australia said on Monday it was "deeply disappointed" Japan had continued whaling in the Southern Ocean after anti-whaling activists published a photograph of a dead whale and two days after Australian and Japanese leaders discussed the issue.
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"There is no question native whaling communities and quotas have historically been held hostage by Japan and its bloc in an effort to demand rule changes and resuscitate commercial whaling," said Patrick Ramage, marine conservation director at the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
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Japanese whaling ship "Nisshin Maru" leaves the port of Shimonoseki, southwestern Japan, in this Nov.
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Emily is wearing sneakers over in Nantucket and has a job at the Whaling Museum.
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The group also claims that Australia is reneging on its promise to monitor Japanese whaling.
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The Japanese whaling industry still faces one serious problem: appetite for whale meat is declining.
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Volunteers like Ms Kanayurak monitor the VHF radio 24 hours a day during whaling season.
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But in 220, a whaling moratorium drove prices up and made whale a luxury food.
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A few towns have ancient traditions of whaling, something the IWC took little account of.
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Anti-whaling organizations, however, insist the hunts are illegal, inhumane and detrimental to whale populations.
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Japan halted commercial whaling in 1982 in line with a moratorium adopted by the IWC.
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Watson has repeatedly led campaigns to intervene during Japanese whaling operations on the open ocean.
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The species was on the brink of extinction several decades ago due to commercial whaling.
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Commercial whaling was banned in 1986 in response to public outcry from around the world.
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Ishmael, the only survivor of the whaling ship, Pequod, is the narrator of Moby-Dick.
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Japan says its whaling is for scientific research, but opponents argue this just a cover.
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I think in another 10 years there will be no deep sea whaling in Japan.
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While the days of commercial whaling may be over, human activity remains their biggest threat.
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The Makah voluntarily stopped hunting whales in the 1920s, when commercial whaling operations were common.
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Harvard Business School Professor Tom Nicholas co-wrote Whaling Ventures in 2012, and has now
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It was the fall of 22017, and the Arctic whaling season was at full throttle.
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In 2014, the International Court of Justice ruled that Japan should halt its Antarctic whaling.
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Japanese people have "mixed feelings" about whaling, according to Hisayo Takada, spokeswoman for Greenpeace Japan.
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Another industry was whaling, despite the city's location far from where the mammals actually swim.
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Nobody in the industry expects demand or profits to grow rapidly when commercial whaling resumes.
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The ice looks decent this year, according to Frederick Brower, a fourth-generation whaling captain.
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Only a third of Icelanders surveyed this year expressed some level of disapproval of whaling.
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" Eleanor Henderson on "Defending Conservatism, and Seeking Converts" Cinlong Huang on "Meet Iceland's Whaling Magnate.
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Whaling is estimated to have killed nearly three million whales in the 20th century alone.
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In 2015, an expert panel from the International Whaling Commission tried to answer this question.
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Globally, humpback whale populations are increasing after a moratorium on commercial whaling began in 1986.
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In the North Slope villages, whaling captains continued to serve as leaders of the community.
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Sperm whales, for example, have had a huge resurgence since the decline in commercial whaling.
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Last year, an intrusive tourist nearly came to blows with one of the whaling captains.
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For now, Iceland may be holding onto its whaling heritage, hinged to a shaky loophole.
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It sets strict catch limits based on scientific methodology established by the International Whaling Commission.
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But in 220, a whaling moratorium drove prices up and made whale a luxury food.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads One of the longest paintings ever created is an 1848 depiction of a "whaling voyage 'round the world" that stretches 1,275 feet — roughly the length of 14 blue whales, according to its holder, the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
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Mayor Beverly Whaling commented on the post saying: "Just made my day Pam," the screengrab shows.
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CNN has attempted to reach both Whaling and Taylor for comment and have not heard back.
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The Japanese Fisheries Agency published quotas on Monday for the next six months of commercial whaling.
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"Our immediate issue is how to make financial sense of it (whaling) going forward," said Kai.
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Amanda D. McMullen was appointed president and chief executive officer of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
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Episode 4 is titled "Pequod," after the whaling ship in Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick.
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Britain and the rest of the anti-whaling camp reject that on conservationist and humane grounds.
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Suga described the IWC as a group dedicated to opposing whaling, rather than devoted to sustainability.
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I know Robert [Eggers] was reading a lot of Herman Melville and other stories about whaling.
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Scholars are uncertain whether Herman Melville ever saw Turner's whaling pictures, but he knew about them.
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"We're talking rights here," Nate Tyler, a 227-year-old tribal council member, said of whaling.
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But since 20073, they have been subjected to regulations set by the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
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Only Iceland and Norway still allow commercial whaling, defying a nearly 30-year-old international moratorium.
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The two never worked together, but Mr. Whaling said he noticed flourishes in the property's design.
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Rock told me it is not a coincidence that many top A.S.R.C. officials are whaling captains.
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At the time, American whaling ships were floating abattoirs, their decks slippery with blood and oil.
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Government data shows revenue from whaling contributed just 0.1 percent of Abashiri's fisheries' production in 2017.
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Whaling advocates point to its high protein content and low carbon footprint compared with other meats.
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His print exemplifies traditional Japanese whaling as a cultural phenomenon that engaged the entire village communities.
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Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary, said Wednesday that the country has decided to leave the International Whaling Commission — a multinational conservation body with more than 2000 members that established a moratorium on whaling back in 22013 — and start hunting whales again in the waters around Japan.
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Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief Cabinet secretary, said Wednesday that the country has decided to leave the International Whaling Commission — a multinational conservation body with more than 80 members that established a moratorium on whaling back in 1986 — and start hunting whales again in the waters around Japan.
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In the 1970s, for instance, US federal researchers concluded the Bering Sea's bowhead whale population was shrinking, prompting the International Whaling Commission, a global organization that manages whale conservation and whaling, to impose drastic hunting restrictions on indigenous communities that depended on the cetaceans for sustenance.
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"Japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic...." Block and others, including anthropologist Jane Goodall, are calling for an "international whaling intervention" to be staged at the meeting in the western city of Osaka, and letters have been sent to all G20 leaders urging them to tell Japan it is out of step with the world and call for an end to all commercial whaling, the statement added.
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Yet the whaling programme has cost at least $400m in subsidies since 1988, according to one study.
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And this correlates with the North Atlantic population, which came back after the 1986 moratorium on whaling.
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Norway, the global leader in whale hunting Japan is not the only country that engages in whaling.
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The southern right whale was given its name because tragically, it was the "right" whale for whaling.
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Even so, the International Whaling Commission has never been able to muster the votes to stop Japan.
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Ashley spent time aboard whaling ships, including the Sunbeam for a piece commissioned by Harper's Monthly Magazine.
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" Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling responded to the post, WSAZ-TV reported — saying, "Just made my day Pam.
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Some of these images recall Turner, who painted four whaling scenes near the end of his career.
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"For the time being, coastal whaling isn't a problem as long as it's done precisely," she said.
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While whaling holds cultural significance, the market for whale meat is shrinking and labor costs are rising.
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An earlier version of this briefing reported incorrectly the area in which Japan will resume commercial whaling.
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"Australia remains resolutely opposed to all forms of commercial and so-called 'scientific' whaling," the ministers said.
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Both Abe and the policy chief of his Liberal Democratic Party, Toshihiro Nikai, are from whaling districts.
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When she was young — about your age — she spent a month living on a Soviet whaling vessel.
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Despite the movie's inclusion of anti-whaling voices (including Sea Shepherd "guardians"), its tone is mostly miffed.
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In 2010, Australia took Japan to the International Court of Justice, accusing it of illegal commercial whaling.
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While the days of Yankee whaling are long gone, so are those of healthy right whale populations.
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On a solo trip to the Whaling Museum, Emily has an epiphany that isn't exactly clear right now.
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"The catch was much bigger than expected," said Yoshifumi Kai, chairman of the Japan Small-Type Whaling Association.
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Sato said he hopes the relaunch of commercial whaling in Japan will help young Japanese rediscover whale meat.
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Zerbini, a senior research biologist on marine mammals for 25 years, distinguished between two key periods in whaling.
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Whaling season is a time of year when the community comes together around thousand-year-old cultural traditions.
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Now, after two centuries of whaling on an industrial scale, the Southern Ocean will be a cetacean sanctuary.
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In Taiji, on Japan's main island, memories of whaling are more recent and the tradition many centuries old.
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How badly sperm whales were hit by whaling is hard to know, but their population is certainly recovering.
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But even if commercial whaling did come to an end, that wouldn't be the end of the story.
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Antiques During the 19th century, travelers on whaling ships used art to record dramatic and sometimes gory events.
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Japan proposed an end to a ban on commercial whaling at an international conference on Monday, sparking criticism.
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Ellen P. Tatreau, an American Baptist minister, performed the ceremony at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Mass.
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They currently have a ship that takes part in coastal whaling and will join the July 403 fleet.
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In February of 1880, the whaling ship Hope sailed north from Peterhead, Scotland, and headed for the Arctic.
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Last week, the chairman of the Japan Small-Type Whaling Association, Yoshifumi Kai, said the industry would adjust.
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As of 2013, the Japanese whaling industry employed fewer than 1,000 people and required government subsidies to survive.
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They currently have a ship that takes part in coastal whaling and will join the July 1 fleet.
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Mr. Loftsson said it was generally doing well, although restarting whaling after the long hiatus had been costly.
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McGuire sets his novel at the twilight of the whaling industry and the dawn of the Oil Age.
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From atop its stone tower, built in 1868, the lantern light led whaling ships and fishing boats home.
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The population was believed to have been reduced to less than 10 percent of it pre-whaling levels.
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The American whaling industry ended largely because the most valuable of those creatures were hunted almost to extinction.
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But as whales became scarcer, tastes changed, and a global moratorium on commercial whaling was imposed in 1986.
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Two small companies are still based here, and there is still some small-scale whaling in local waters.
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There's a lot going on in this feat of journalism, but at heart it's about a whaling community.
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Yoko Ichihara wishes more people ate whale at home, but is reassured by the restart of commercial whaling.
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But the plan to kill 227 whales in six months is just the beginning, according to whaling industry supporters.
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Japan's Fisheries Agency has allocated the equivalent of about $463 million to supporting whaling for the 2019 fiscal year.
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Security for protecting the whaling fleet from militant conservationists has pushed up the price tag for each Antarctic expedition.
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The Japanese government is considering commercial whaling only in seas near Japan and its exclusive economic zone, Kyodo reported.
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The former whaling town hasn't seen much economic success since the surrounding water stopped offering up things to catch.
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Environmentalists are pushing the Obama administration to level stricter sanctions on the country and get it to halt whaling.
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Ribeiro said it was high time to tighten the 70-year-old International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
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If you're interested in detailed pictorial documentation of the whaling industry, this is not the most informative of sources.
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Today Japanese whaling vessels set sail to hunt whales commercially for the first time in more than three decades.
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Since then the country's whaling industry has shrunk to just a handful of small companies employing barely 300 people.
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Norway, for example, is a country that for decades has defied a legally-binding global moratorium on commercial whaling.
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When the law was passed in 1973, few whales were left along the East Coast after centuries of whaling.
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KATZ: This phalanx of cops comes into the back of the crowd and just is whaling into the crowd.
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Whaling arrived at the turn of the 20th century, with the hunting pressure driving some species from Antarctic waters.
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Separately, after a hiatus of more than 210 years, Japan has officially started commercial whaling in its waters again.
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Japan's argument is that the commission was set up in 1946 to manage commercial whaling, not to ban it.
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He and his sister together are the largest shareholders in Hvalur, the whaling business once run by their father.
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Thanks in part to a moratorium on commercial whaling, the numbers of these whales have rebounded over the years.
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In the mid-19th century, its whaling industry made it one of the wealthiest cities in the United States.
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Estimates are 2 million whales were destroyed; an estimated 10 percent of whales survive from the pre-whaling days.
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Most every nation has prohibited killing whales, creatures whose populations were decimated by ruthless whaling practices in the 1800s.
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"Icelanders consider themselves a very humane society and are offended that they're doing something bad by whaling," said Scheiber.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's most famous landmark, "The Little Mermaid", has been doused in red paint by anti-whaling activists.
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They rely on the sea for food, and their year is built around festivals for berry picking and whaling.
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But worldwide conservation efforts in recent decades, and treaties enacted to outlaw whaling, have saved the once endangered species.
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This year's quota for commercial whaling, including minkes, sei whales and Bryde's whales, is 227, the Fisheries Agency said.
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Five smaller ships, which carried out coastal whaling under an IWC loophole, will take the lead after July 1.
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This move has intensified longstanding debates over Japan's justifications for whaling in the Southern Ocean in the name of science.
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Although the whaling was conducted under the guise of research, the meat often ended up for sale in Japanese markets.
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She cites an example: the harpooning of a Toyota in front of the Bank of Tokyo to protest Japanese whaling.
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Anti-whaling activists oppose the ICR, claiming the institute is a cover for Japan to kill whales for commercial profit.
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Although Japan's greater motives aren't known, there's potential that they intend to wind down their whaling operations, possibly for good.
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In the 2017-2018 whaling season, Japan caught and killed 596 whales with a "scientific research" permit from the Commission.
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Same thing with whaling and deer hunting; it's not indigenous people involved in hunting to extinction, it's capitalism and exploitation.
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Whaling nearly wiped out western South Atlantic humpback whales but protection enabled them to make an astonishing 230 percent recovery.
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It sits on a quiet street near the quaint shops of this historic East End village, once a whaling port.
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Turner himself never went on a whaling voyage, and it's possible that he never saw a whale, alive or dead.
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The IWC imposed a ban on commercial whaling in 1986 to protect a shrinking whale population, according to The Guardian.
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UTQIAĠVIK, ALASKA—Arnold Brower Jr., a 220-year-old Iñupiat whaling captain, can recall his first encounter with scientists clearly.
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About 2,2003 people used to inhabit South Georgia, but everyone abandoned the area after the collapse of the whaling industry.
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About 2,000 people used to inhabit South Georgia, but everyone abandoned the area after the collapse of the whaling industry.
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More bones and additional evidence will need to be uncovered before scientists can confidently say that ancient Roman whaling occurred.
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Archaeological remains show that two whale species once swam in the Mediterranean, suggesting that the Romans conducted industrial-scale whaling.
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Sea Shepherd, the group that became infamous in Japan for harrying Japanese whaling vessels, has moved its attention to Iceland.
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But as in most other former whaling regions, the Japanese taste for whale meat has sharply declined over the decades.
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Abe's includes Shimonoseki, where the factory ship for scientific whaling was based, while Taiji is part of Nikai's home base.
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When he goes to the whaling station, he stays in a World War II-era hut left by Allied forces.
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At a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in Lorino, a whaling village in Chukotka, a dozen members describe their efforts.
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"He did not design a vanilla box," said George Whaling, president of the management company for the Ballston senior community.
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Men from the whaling crews had dumped the carcass of a bowhead whale on the pile earlier in the day.
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The interests of 19th century whaling captains and 83st century climatologists converge on a long-suffering species: the bowhead whale.
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She plays checkers with the captains of nearby whaling ships, and records a visit by some "Esquimaux" selling fox skins.
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But this time around, all the "whaling stuff" seemed to me to double as a portrayal of something like PTSD.
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Turner's Whaling Pictures continues through August 7 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan).
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A Japanese whaling program known as "JARPA II" used this gray area to kill roughly 1,000 whales every Antarctic summer season.
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Much remained unclear or unresolved, their leader Ska Keller said, calling also for it to do more to stop Japanese whaling.
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The work is one of the last remaining 100 Whaling Wall murals painted by artist Robert Wyland between 1981 and 19333.
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THREE decades after a global moratorium ended commercial whaling, Japan is again threatening to withdraw from the organisation that oversees it.
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Whale makes up about 0.1 percent of all meat eaten in a year, with about 300 people directly linked to whaling.
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For a start, even as Japan leaves the IWC, it has forsworn whaling in the Southern Ocean (the waters surrounding Antarctica).
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The Makah tribe of north-western America had not caught a whale in 70 years when it resumed whaling in 1999.
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The Japanese government has scrapped supposedly scientific whaling expeditions in Antarctic waters that involved killing a much larger number of whales.
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The last of Japan's four whaling ships returned to port Thursday after a three-month expedition, the Japanese Fisheries Agency reported.
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Subsequent regulations and quotas by the International Whaling Commission — as well as, most sweepingly, the 1982 moratorium — have altered whales' fortunes.
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Before industrial whaling took its toll on the whale population, an estimated 4 million to 5 million whales roamed the seas.
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The predatory rats first invaded the island as stowaways on whaling ships and began targeting the eggs and chicks of seabirds.
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We're covering the intense protests in Hong Kong, the resumption of commercial whaling in Japan and an extreme hailstorm in Mexico.
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But the Dutchess Whaling Company sent ships in search of sperm oil from docks near where the Walkway crosses the Hudson.
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Still, defending the industry carries a nationalist appeal, with international criticism of whaling sometimes seen as an imposition of Western values.
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It describes the program as having a scientific purpose, but experts say it is a cover to continue whaling for profit.
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In 1853, the Times described the whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts, as "probably the wealthiest place" in the United States.
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And prominent whaling captains had become leaders in business—especially in the land-claims native corporation, the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.
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That is a potential boon, the whaling industry predicts, in a country that takes the freshness of its food very seriously.
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Whaling is limited to Japan's 200-mile exclusive economic zone, where it has the sovereign right to use the living resources.
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Every year, an estimated 300,000 whales and dolphins die after getting caught in fishing gear, according to the International Whaling Commission.
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The right whale literally fueled the Yankee whaling industry, the engine that drove New England's economy for more than a century.
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The advocacy group is working with SeaWorld to tackle other global threats to marine mammals like ocean pollution and commercial whaling.
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Clay, West Virginia Mayor Beverly Whaling has resigned in the wake of a racist Facebook post directed against First Lady Michelle Obama.
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC), the global body overseeing the conservation of whales, recognizes seven types of humpbacks in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Suga said commercial whaling will resume in July in Japanese territorial waters and economic zones only, leaving the controversial Antarctic waters alone.
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Far out on the ice and in the indigo waters of the Arctic Ocean, the whaling crews of Utqiagvik are still working.
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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) says this is utter nonsense, claiming the real purpose of the mission is to harvest whale meat.
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Image: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/FlickrOnce again, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has attempted to create a South Atlantic sanctuary for whales.
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Japan canceled that program for the following season, but then turned around and argued that the ICJ didn't have jurisdiction over whaling.
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With documentary film, literary texts, and new footage, it explores the current refugee crisis, the transatlantic slave trade, and the whaling industry.
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The comeback was made possible by protections enacted in the 1960s and the ban on commercial whaling in the 1980s, Mongabay reports.
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That's the workout where you hold both ends of a massive rope that that feels like it belongs on a whaling ship.
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Many species were brought to the brink of local extinction as a result of a whaling boom in the mid-19th century.
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To announce that you intend to write about race in his vein is akin to proposing to write about whaling in Melville's.
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Last year, the team received its very first report of kidney worms in a bowhead from the women among the whaling crews.
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Hasegawa said he is concerned about whether whaling will affect his business, but notes that whalers won't operate in the immediate vicinity.
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The book's volume of detailed material at moments makes it like the whaling chapters in "Moby-Dick," possibly trying some readers' patience.
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In 2014, the International Whaling Commission, a global organization aimed at whale conservation, declared there was no scientific basis for the practice.
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And the Poughkeepsie Whaling Company was at the foot of Main Street, according to historical accounts, where a whale sculpture sits today.
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That divide has come to a head with Japan's exit from the International Whaling Commission, a politically motivated decision Tokyo should reconsider.
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In 2014, the International Court of Justice ruled Japan's whaling plan was unscientific, forcing it to call off the 2014-2015 hunt.
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Barely 300 people are directly connected to whaling, and whale represented only about 0.1 percent of Japan's total meat consumption in 2016.
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A coalition of pro-whaling nations shot down a proposal to create a South Atlantic whale sanctuary during a conference in Brazil.
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Fishermen from the small whaling village of Lamalera, on a sunbaked island in remote eastern Indonesia, have been hunting whales for centuries.
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Japan revived the whaling in 2015 under a new program with a self-imposed quota, though it has been condemned by scientists.
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They take a management fee, drop a bit of their own money into the mix, and, like the whaling agents, promise expertise.
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In 21856, not yet twenty, Melville went to sea on a merchant ship, like Ishmael, before signing on to a whaling ship.
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A restoration project, supported by a 2016 award from the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, aims to return it to view.
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Clay County Commissioner Greg Fitzwater confirmed to CNN that Whaling resigned, but did not know if Taylor was terminated or resigned her post.
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