Sentences with phrase «by whalers»

Several of the islands were used by whalers in the 1930s to hunt for sperm whales.

This beach in Svalbard, Norway, was used by whalers since the early 1600s.

The number of whales killed by whalers has doubled since the 1990s, with so - called scientific whaling claiming roughly 1000 annually, and perhaps 600 more captured by scofflaw nations.

They have been heavily hunted by whalers and Japan whalers still kill them under the guise of «scientific research».

Some 35,000 whales have been taken by whalers in the years since 1986, when the IWC adopted the commercial whaling moratorium, and there are IWC member nations that continue to promote commercial whaling and international trade in the face of the many significant threats to the well - being and survival of cetaceans.

Eden was originally settled by whalers and is now a fishing port and popular holiday resort town.

The Greenland population, once decimated by whalers, has grown suspiciously fast since 2000, and Heide - Jørgensen suspects the hand of immigration from Alaska.

It is like finding out that living next to a nuclear power plant boosts fertility, or that whales enjoy the cut and thrust of being chased by whalers.

As throughout the rest of the islands, Pinta tortoises were over-exploited by whalers, fur sealers, and others in the 1800s.

The latest from the New York Herald Tribune states that the polar exploration ship Hansa is reported by a whaler as being crushed in sunk in the pack ice in its attempt to reach the North Pole; sunk at seventy degrees north latitude off Greenland.

At Champion Islet, snorkel among sea lions; then visit Post Office Bay, founded by whalers in the 18th century.

Stop by Whalers Village this Valentine's Day for something sweet!

They were reduced by whalers to less than 5 % of their original population but thanks to conservation efforts they have recovered faster than any other baleen whale species and now number about 20,000 individuals in the North Pacific.

Initially settled in 1840 on a natural harbour used earlier by whalers, Warrnambool once provided a sheltered refuge from the wild Southern Ocean's notorious Shipwreck Coast.

From a purely physiological standpoint, there are significant differences in the mass, length, and organ placement of whale species targeted by whalers.

It is argued by the whalers that growing whale populations will lead to an imbalance in the marine ecosystem, and that by distorting the marine food chain, recovering populations of whales will threaten global food security.

Being the smallest species, minke whales were among the last to be exploited by whalers after the larger animals had been severely depleted.

According to Sea Shepherd, there is no evidence that a single whale has yet been killed by the whalers this season.

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.

Only in recent decades have minke whales been taken by whalers to any extent.

A particularly beautiful area of the NSW Far South Coast originally settled by whalers and now a fishing port and a popular, but relatively undeveloped, holiday resort town.

Known as the «right» kind of whales for hunting, the last North Pacific right whale in Canadian waters was seen (and killed) by whalers in 1951.

Where I lived it was overrun with mynah birds brought over by the whalers the same way the cats were brought here yet for very different reasons... the mynahs were entertainment, the cats had a very important job to do.

The town itself is a relatively recent invention, founded in 1818 by whalers (the indigenous Polynesians were based farther up the coast at the beautiful Matavai Bay).

The environmentalists claim to have been «intentionally rammed» by whalers, and had one of their boats completely destroyed in recent weeks.