Sentences with phrase «whale killed»

Food products from the hunts of protected minke whales killed in Norwegian waters are being sold in a number of SPAR Norway outlets and other NorgesGruppen stores.

The number of whales killed by whalers has doubled since the 1990s, with so - called scientific whaling claiming roughly 1000 annually, and perhaps 600 more captured by scofflaw nations.

Between 2008 and 2009, the number of minke whales killed by Japan in Antarctica jumped from 551 to 679, while Iceland raised its quota from 40 to 200.

Japan's scientific whaling program continued to draw criticism, especially following new reports that nearly one third of the minke whales killed were pregnant.

The IWC's work to improve whale killing methods depends on the willingness of the whaling nations to share whaling data (on the time to death (TTD) of hunted whales, instantaneous death rate (IDR), and the number of whales struck and lost) and to respond to recommendations from other governments, nongovernmental organizations, and welfare or ballistic experts.

«One uncomfortable reality for conservationists is that abundance takes away one argument for banning whale killing» Can you imagine if we used this logic for thinning out our own species?

The Small Working Group process that was flawed from the outset and therefore unlikely to ever result in fewer whales killed.

The remote Atlantic islands, situated between Scotland and Iceland, have been one of the last strongholds of traditional whaling, with thousands of small pilot whales killed every year, and eaten by most Faroese.

For, example, Alaskan polar bears can be attracted to the remains of bowhead whales killed by humans, and the number of bowhead whales that Alaskan natives are allowed to kill each year increased twice during the USGS study.

In the latest study, scientists analyzed an earplug from an endangered blue whale killed by a ship near California.

«Genetics lab unravels mystery whale killing at sea.»

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

Human carnivores that enjoy excessive protein in their diets, against or pro whale killing are supporting the cause of harvesting more protein.

A fresh batch of video and photos of this year's Faroese whale killings has been posted on the Web, mainly by animal welfare campaigners.

«I'll probably get in trouble for making this statement, but I am probably convinced right now that there would be fewer whales killed if we didn't have the commercial moratorium,» he told BBC News immediately after the meeting ended.

Following the judgment, Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States are calling on increased diplomatic pressure for Japan to abide by an International Court of Justice ruling to stop whale killing in the Southern Ocean.

HSI calls for global pressure as Japan poised for new whale killing in Southern Ocean next month

Other concessions during the meeting included Japan's agreement not to request a commercial whale hunt on its coast, the withdrawal of a resolution by the U.S. and New Zealand for member countries to work more cooperatively, and an agreement by the UK to hold discussions between meetings instead of establishing a formal working group to address whale killing methods and welfare.

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.

The stated reasons for initiating the Small Working Group process were to diminish acrimony within the IWC and to reduce the number of whales killed each year.

One uncomfortable reality for conservationists is that abundance takes away one argument for banning whale killing.

As the university news release noted, it's important to keep in mind that the California recovery is a tiny bright spot given that researchers estimate (from other work) that the 3,400 whales killed in that population from 1905 to 1971 pale beside the 346,000 harpooned in Antarctic waters in the same span.

«Even accepting our results that the current level of ship strikes is not going to cause overall population declines, there is still going to be ongoing concern that we don't want these whales killed by ships,» Branch said.

I fully support a movement to boycott Japanese goods if they do not start rolling back their whale killing «research.»

This whale killing has nothing to do with Japanese historical traditions which have involved cutting off the heads of peasants or anyone else who looked the wrong way at a samurai or official.

Not long ago, reflecting on studies showing that whale watching had become a much bigger economic force than whale killing, I proposed a change in the name to the International Whale Commission, reflecting the shifting nature of most humans» relationships to these remarkable marine mammals.

Some marine conservation groups last Friday decried Iceland's final tally of more than 150 whales killed in this year's harvest, including 94 fin whales — the second largest whale and one that is still on some lists of endangered species.

At the same time, the media can not afford to deploy boats to chronicle whale hunts, and governments opposed to whale kills in the global commons of the Southern Ocean aren't doing much to track or resist such activities.

Knowing the biota food source relationship to ice and what whales fed on what biota, the researchers were able to take the position of the whale kills from the admiralty records and map the decadal long position of the southern ice coverage.

The study examined the effectiveness of Japanese and Norwegian explosive harpoons «in order to improve the method of whale killing.»

Yahoo! Japan also sells hundreds of whale products including internationally protected species such as fin whales illegally killed in Iceland, minke whales killed in the Antarctic whale sanctuary as well as Bryde's, sei and sperm whales killed in the Northwest Pacific.

Yet, in its early attempts to regulate whaling, the IWC did nothing more than sanction whaling, even when the numbers of whales killed were clearly jeopardizing populations.

Last year Sea Shepherd's harassment of the Japanese whaling fleet halved the number of whales killed.

While this is fewer than the 591 whales killed in 2016, and well below the quota of 999,...