Sentences with phrase «commercial whaling industry»
Today, six decades after the IWC formed, and a quarter century after its adoption of the moratorium, it is not only legally valid, but abundantly justified by current environmental circumstances, for the IWC to place greater emphasis on conservation rather than maintaining a commercial whaling industry which has so thoroughly run aground in terms of its acceptability to the global community.
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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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Many were also the target for commercial industry, leading to a sharp decline in all populations of exploited species, such as whales and seals.
But these nations» energy and resources will be better spent making inroads into closing down an outmoded industry rather than propping it up while dangerously renewing hopes for the resumption of full - scale commercial whaling.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was created in 1946 — at a time when commercial whaling was a vibrant inWhaling Commission (IWC) was created in 1946 — at a time when commercial whaling was a vibrant inwhaling was a vibrant industry.
When asked what people could do to become actively involved in bringing an end to the senseless thrill kills, Hammarstedt suggested hitting the Faroese in their wallets, a tactic not at all unfamiliar to Captain Paul Watson and Sea Shepherd who are well known for their successful efforts to bankrupt rogue maritime industries including the collapsing Canadian seal hunt and illegal Japanese commercial whaling.
Additionally, the establishment of commercial forestry, whaling and fishing industries altered the landscape and the peoples» way of life.
New Bedford is a thriving residential and commercial town, thriving off its fishing and manufacturing industries that are embedded deep into the history as the «whaling city.»