Sentences with phrase «before whalers»

The Sea Shepherd has located the Japanese whaling boats in the Southern Ocean and has clashed before the whalers have managed to slaughter any whales.

Welles is near the beginning, and he sports a preposterously ragged beard and plays a priest who gives a sermon about Jonah and the Whale before the whalers go off to sea.

Growing to nearly 60 feet in length, the North Atlantic right whale was one of the first targets of the world's commercial whaling industry and was rapidly wiped out from the animal's coastal habitats in the Atlantic before whalers moved onto other species.

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Before and since the whalers it has been the landfall for westbound Atlantic shipping, and today its name is bandied about the skies as a key point in the regulation of transoceanic aerial traffic.

The whalers were astounded that they ran out of customers before they ran out of whales.

The island lies about 200 miles (322 kilometers) from Floreana Island, where C. elephantopus was last spotted before disappearing, likely due to hunting by whalers, some 150 years ago.

In early 1859 the crew of the Volunteer, a Greenland - bound whaler, is making the most of the last few days ashore at Hull, England, before setting out to sea.

It's well on its way to becoming another Whalers Village fixture — but the «new kid» still has a ways to go before it joins the ranks of the two grande dames of Kā «anapali Beach: Hula Grill and Leilani's.

It is in the process of debating a proposal that purports to regulate commercial whaling, with the assumption that whalers would harvest only what was sustainable — a feat never before accomplished and unlikely to happen.

This time they will arrive in Antarctica before the Japanese whalers for the first time ever.

In yesterday's skirmish, the activists were relentless in their disruptive tactics — attempting to damage the whaler's engine, shining lasers to blind the crewmembers, throwing stink bombs, before finally setting on the use of acid, according to the report.