Sentences with phrase «european whalers»

Like most oceanic islands, the Galápagos have a history of increasing fishing pressure dating back to European whalers, and culminating in recent news of the Ecuadorian government seizing a Chinese fishing vessel with more than 6,000 sharks taken from protected waters around the islands.

European whalers hunted the whale off the coast of New Zealand in the last century, apparently reducing the population from 60 000 to around 3000.

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Later, a handful European settlers — for the most part, whalers and sealers — built a number of small dwellings on the site.