More ships followed in the two following winters, after which gray whaling in the bay was nearly abandoned because «of the inferior quality and low price of the dark - colored
gray whale oil, the low quality and quantity of whalebone from the gray, and the dangers of lagoon whaling.»
Not exact matches
Western
gray whales are facing, the large - scale offshore
oil and gas development programs near their summer feeding ground, as well as fatal net entrapments off Japan during migration, which pose significant threats to the future survival of the population.
Russian
oil and gas company, Rosneft, is conducting
oil and gas exploration work that may have caused the critically endangered western
gray whale to flee its main feeding ground.