Sentences with phrase «whale hunts by»

On Earth Day, the leadership of the International Whaling Commission issued a long - discussed proposal for a «peace plan» aimed at reining in expanding whale hunts by Japan, Norway and Iceland that have, in various ways, skirted the longstanding moratorium on commercial whaling.

There is no argument to justify the whale hunt by Japan's government.

Not exact matches

Dismayed by the disconnect between reality and the cartoonish animals populating his young daughter's pajamas, books and view of the natural world, journalist Mooallem sets off to explore often circuitous human - animal relationships: The once - feared polar bear has become the cherished mascot of climate change, and whales, once hunted without restraint, now attract near - fanatical rescue efforts.

Lindberg says these whales may have stopped migrating because the threat posed by hunting has been removed.

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.

The study also refutes claims by Norwegian and Japanese whale hunters that hunting is necessary for scientific reasons, Clark argues: «This research shows that you can study these animals better alive than dead.»

«The hunting of large whales is managed by the International Whaling Commission,» added Baker, who works out of OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. «But there is no international or inter-governmental organization to set quotas or provide management advice for hunting small cetaceans.

This year, far from renouncing its hunt, Japan has proposed increasing its catch of minke whales by 30 per cent.

«The present study is the first on apes to show by means of networking analysis that habits travel along paths of close relationships,» he says, adding that a similar idea was shown not long ago for humpback whale hunting techniques.

After hunting was banned by the International Whaling Commission in 1966, blue whale numbers began to slowly recover.

Whale hunting goes back millennia, but by the 18th century, new maritime technology made the practice truly intensive.

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Philbrick's accessible narrative of the tragic 1820s whaling voyage whose central disaster was the violent encounter with a sperm whale engages readers with descriptions of Nantucket's unusual commercial, religious, and social characteristics, the class and racial aspects of Nantucket whaling, and other issues raised by the Essex's final whale hunt.

Circles of bubbles would appear from below — the whales do this to cause fish to congregate for easier hunting — followed by breach after breach of the whales as they scooped up schools of tiny fish in their mouths.

Learn about Pico's rich history and traditions by visiting the Wine Museum and the Whaler's Museum and discover Pico's long wine - making tradition dating back to the 15th century and its past whale - hunting customs.

The whales hunt using a technique known as bubble net fishing in which a group of humpbacks surround their prey by blowing bubbles and then feasting on the «surrounded» bait.

Some Alaska Native peoples continue by tradition to hunt bowhead and beluga whales on a subsistence level, with low annual bowhead total quotas set by the International Whaling Commission in conjunction with individual village limits set by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

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

[40] A. B. Van Deinse points out that the «scrag whale», described by P. Dudley in 1725 as one of the species hunted by the early New England whalers, was almost certainly the gray whale.

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Fin whale and humpback casualties worry them, but blue whales — which had been hunted to the brink of extinction by the 1960s — are their greatest concern.

Although Ingrid's studies take place in New Zealand, the hunting techniques she describes are very similar to those used by killer whales pursuing seals in the San Juan Islands of Washington: cooperative herding, surpise attacks, and powerful blows from the flukes to deal the death blow.

The kayak camping trips are only slightly affected by the changing hunting tactics of the killer whales.

Another event, involving a pair of humpback whales attempting to save a gray whale calf from a hunting pod of orcas after it had become separated from its mother, was captured by BBC filmmakers.

A steamboat caught in a storm appears engulfed by the water and spray while a whale hunt lacks detail but is easily recognisable by the black form of the beast and the scarlet jets of blood.

So while you guys were jamming with the humpback, over in Agadir, Morocco, the usual suspects, brought together every year for decades now, were realizing that there was no way to cut a hoped - for deal to allow some sanctioned, but controlled, whaling in place of the current hunts by three countries.

With Japan's whale hunt in stormy southern seas wrapped for the season, the battle over efforts by a handful of countries to expand whale hunts has shifted to Iceland.

The pilot whale hunt in the Faroes is, by its very nature, a dramatic and bloody sight.

His argument is that Japan's hunts, conducted under a clause in the whaling convention that gives any country the right to hunt as many whales as it wants for scientific research, are essentially unregulated by the international commission.

If the problem with whale hunting is described by Roger Payne's quote then I don't really see what the problem is.

Nations still hunting whales are doing so outside of existing laws and treaties or by exploiting loopholes.

Whaling is defended by some Japanese, however, who feel unfairly singled out by international criticism and who argue that the hunts are a Japanese tradition.

I had my doubts when the Oscar - winning director of «The Cove,» the searing documentary on Japan's annual slaughter of dolphins, told me he was confident that Japan's policy on whale hunts could be changed under rising pressure from within triggered in part by outside pressure — a force called gaiatsu in Japanese.

In 2009, Iceland hunted 125 fin whales, followed by 148 in 2010, zero in the years 2011 - 2012, and 134 fin whales in 2013.

With these kinds of pressures threatening the long - term viability of our oceans and their inhabitants, it is irresponsible to add even greater pressure on whales by hunting them to supply the luxury food market.

Offshore, pods of bowhead whales are still hunted by Alaska Natives.

OSLO (Reuters)- Some large whale species such as the humpback, minke and southern right whale are recovering from a threat of extinction, helped by curbs on hunts since the 1980s, the world's largest conservation network said on Tuesday.

The Chukchi Sea is also part of the seasonal migration route for Bowhead whales that supports subsistence hunting by local indigenous communities.

Iceland, Norway and Japan continue to hunt whales, and more than 31,000 whales have been killed by those countries since the moratorium took effect in 1986.

The disagreement has its roots in a decision by Iceland to resume commercial whale hunting in 2006.

Whales are already facing significant threats from climate change, marine pollution, ship strikes, etc., and it is irresponsible for industrialized nations such as Iceland to put even greater pressure on these animals by hunting them to supply a luxury food market.

Slayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales has been jointly released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) on the eve of the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portorož, Slovenia.

In addition, unlike many other krill - eating top predators in the Antarctic, such as whales and fur seals, they were not hunted by humans,» said Dr. Trivelpiece.

The Heath Ledger - directed Modest Mouse video for «King Rat,» released Tuesday, follows the animated adventures of a ship helmed by whales on the hunt for humans — harpoons and all.Ledger developed the video to draw attention to

Every once in a while there's some good news on the endangered species front: A team of scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has discovered an undetermined number of North Atlantic right whales, in an area where it was thought they had been hunted nearly extinction over a hundred years ago: The whales were discovered by using a series of underwater hydrophones to record the sound of the whales over hundreds of miles of ocean.

Today they're hunted by Iceland, Norway and Japan, whose annual quota is now 935 whales.

While we can all agree that Japan's scientific research program - under which it claims the prerogative to hunt 1,000 or so whales every year - is merely a front for a commercial whaling enterprise, we shouldn't have to resort to the type of vicious tactics employed by Watson and his crew to block its activities.

Still, the raised quota represents an increase of 45 percent over last year's, even overtaking Japan's lofty whale hunting allowance.Demand For Whale is Down, And the Quota is Up According to a report from EcoAgência, folks from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), aren't quite sure why Norway would increase their self - imposed whale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunwhale hunting allowance.Demand For Whale is Down, And the Quota is Up According to a report from EcoAgência, folks from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), aren't quite sure why Norway would increase their self - imposed whale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunWhale is Down, And the Quota is Up According to a report from EcoAgência, folks from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), aren't quite sure why Norway would increase their self - imposed whale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunwhale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunters.