Sentences with phrase «commercial whalers»

Caught in only modest quantities for centuries, the minke whale was largely ignored by commercial whalers until the late 1960's, when the great baleen whales were all but wiped out.

THE RICHES OF THE SPERM WHALE: Commercial whalers sought the sperm whale for its fine oil, dark meat, unique spermaceti and mysterious ambergris.

But times changed when the world realized that commercial whalers had slaughtered the gray whales to almost imminent extinction.

Not exact matches

NORWAY faces strong condemnation from the International Whaling Commission again this year, as its whalers continue their commercial hunt in the face of a world moratorium and in the absence of any reliable way of determining «safe» catch quotas.

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.

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.

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.