Sentences with phrase «whaling research expedition»

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This 1993 photo of a crew tying up minke whales during a Japanese «research» expedition helped spark a global outcry and court action.

Dr. Jaime Jahncke, California Current Group Director for Point Blue Conservation Science, went on an eight - day research expedition along the California coast in May 2016 and observed about 30 to 80 whales every day — mostly humpbacks and a few gray whales.

Mike Ball Dive Expeditions and Eye to Eye Marine Encounters offer snorkelling and whale research tours off the coast of Tropical North Queensland, which hosts the only known congregation of minke whales in the world.

Japan's early abandonment of this year's «research» whaling expedition to waters near Antarctica appears to be the result of growing acknowledgment that the Japanese public simply isn't interested in whale meat.

Japan has dispatched its whaling fleet on what it calls a scientific research expedition.