Sentences with phrase «fin whales»

It can give a more detailed insight on call patterns, respiration times and swimming speeds of fin whales in their natural habitat, without disturbing them with any human presence.»

The Winter Bay, chartered by notorious Icelandic whaler Kristján Loftsson, departed Iceland on June 4 carrying an estimated 1,800 metric tons of endangered fin whale products; the vessel docked in Osaka, Japan on August 30.

Iceland killed 273 endangered fin whales in the last two years.

Iceland's fin whale hunt revolves around Kristján Loftsson, a multi-millionaire and the Executive Director of Hvalur hf.

Hundreds of whale products, including endangered fin whale from Iceland and products from the whale and dolphin drive hunts in Taiji featured in the documentary The Cove, are also being sold on Rakuten Ichiba.

Over the past eight years, Hvalur has exported more than 5,000 tonnes of fin whale products from Iceland to Japan, including a record single shipment of 2,071 tonnes in 2014.

Fox served as an intern studying humpback and fin whales as part of the Mingan Island Cetacean Study, which contributed to the enormous dataset.

The Cetaceans Gallery presents specimens — including a 18 - meter - long fin whale skeleton -, and sections focused on Cetaceans» biology, on the history of whale hunting, and on the various species of cetaceans living in the Mediterranean Sea.

Despite this suspension, Iceland continues to permit whaling and has a government issued fin whale quota in effect for the 2011 season that continues to exceed catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium was removed.

In his bid to create a viable market for fin whale products in Japan, he has used the resources of another company for which he serves as Chair of the Board — Icelandic fishing giant HB Grandi.

The last time Iceland included fin whales in its quota was 2006, according to Chris Cutter of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

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Using underwater microphones, they recorded fin whale sounds from afar, but the whales themselves were never seen.

Officials try to keep onlookers away from a 42 - foot fin whale calf that beached itself then died in Stinson Beach, Calif., Monday, August 19, 2013.

We occasionally spot Fin Whales, Minke Whales, Harbor Porpoise, Bottlenose Dolphins, and Beaked Whales.

Some tours, like our blue & fin whale tours, require a bit of flexibility to ensure that water and weather conditions are suitable.

Orcas, humpbacks, minke, dolphins, porpoise, and once, a huge Fin whale.

Below is an image of one of more than 100 fin whales slaughtered this year by a business in Iceland that, according to a new report by conservationists, is exporting most of the meat to Japan.

IWC scientists fear removing more than 46 fin whales per year from the population is unsustainable.

Iceland's commercial harvest of fin whales escalated dramatically in 2009 and 2010, was suspended in 2011 and 2012 due to difficulties in the Japanese market after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and resumed in 2013.

Ask the Japanese Prime Minister to stop targeting fin whales and refrain from hunting humpback whales in violation of IWC regulation 19 (a), Paragraph 10 (d), which bans the use of factory ships to process any whales except minke whales.

2006: Iceland took 60 minke whales under special permit and resumed commercial whaling under its reservation to the IWC's moratorium; it took seven fin whales out of a self - allocated quota of nine and one out of 30 minkes under its reservation.

Here, we report the novel use of acoustic recording tags equipped with high - resolution accelerometers to detect vibrations from the surface of two tagged fin whales that directly match the timing of recorded acoustic signals.

Dolphins, sea lions, pilot whales, humpback whale, blue fin whales, orca and sperm whales.

«So part of the mystery is why just fin whales?

Species QUINTET seen today of Gray amd Fin Whales along with Bottlenose, Common, and Pacific White Sided Dolphins!

Here's earlier coverage of Iceland's whaling program and video from Greenpeace showing the first fin whale hauled ashore in Iceland's 2009 whaling season.

In subsequent years the annual number of endangered fin whales killed by Icelandic fleets for whale - meat exports to Japan had risen from seven to 148.

Unlike other whale species such as humpbacks or gray whales, fin whales carry on a loner's life.

Among the many curiosities depicted are a village built entirely from whale bones and a stupefied, beached fin whale straddled by 15 inquisitive monks.

Fin whales seem to be unique among vertebrates because some of their nerves can be stretched out to twice their normal size

West said their direct - action campaign is having a significant impact in both reducing the number of whales caught — he says the whalers took about half their target of 935 minke and fin whales last year — and increasing costs by reducing efficiency and cutting the amount of whale meat the fleet can sell.

That program, known as JARPA II, called for taking 850 minkes, 50 humpbacks, and 50 fin whales annually, though in recent years actual captures fell far below those targets because of interference by antiwhaling activists.

But the scientific committee has not done enough work yet to complete management plans for four populations: the western North Pacific common minke, Antarctic minke, sei, and Southern Ocean fin whales.

We have tagged several fin whales and blue whales (including the one below) and a single Risso's dolphin (though just briefly on the later).

An automated lunge detector for baleen whale tag data: application and results for fin whales off Southern California.

It's unclear why the young fin whale, about 42 feet long, wound up on the north end of the beach, said Shawn Johnson, director of veterinary science at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.

Related: This is the fifth whale that The Marine Mammal Center has responded to since January 1, 2013 and the fourth fin whale that the Center has responded to since 2010.

Related Links: Cetaceans Fin Whale Strands at Stinson Beach Gray Whale Rescue!

A federally endangered fin whale washed up dead on a West Marin beach after apparently being struck by a ship, officials said Monday.

June 25, 2012 Point Reyes: Fin Whale Dies from Ship Strike - KTVU - TV Marine bilogists announce plan to reduce ship strikes on whales

In one circuit you can appreciate gray whales, blue whales fin whales and of course the humpback whales, along with the possibility of observing from two to six dolphins species in the same 6 - day circuit.

If you don't see a blue whale, you have a high likelihood of encountering the second largest animal on Earth, the wonderful fin whale, as well as other whales such as humpbacks.

We later say the same fin whale while kayaking in the open sea.

Another highlight of our expedition was seeing a massive fin whale swimming just a few meters from our campsite on Ensenada de Marques.

The fight over fin whales is as much about ethics as conservation biology.

Given that the president in 2014 publicly castigated Iceland for its continuing slaughter of fin whales despite their international status as an endangered species, it's hard to interpret the shipment as anything other than thumbing the nose at the United States.