Sentences with phrase «whaling factory ship»
The whaling factory ship, the Nisshin Maru, is now located in the territorial waters of Chile and, according to Captain Paul Watson, who heads up the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the Chilean government, the media and the community are watching it closely.
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The early 1900s was when blue whale numbers crashed because of factory - ship whaling (18 March, p...
Under the title of JARPN (Japanese Whale Research Program under Special Permit in the North Pacific), up to 100 whales were caught each year by a pelagic fleet consisting of the 7,198 to 7,575 gross ton factory ship Nisshin Maru and two to three sighting / sampling vessels — including Toshi Maru No. 25 (739.92 gross tons, 1994 — 1999), Toshi Maru No. 18 (758.33 gross tons, 1994 — 1998), Kyo Maru No. 1 (812.08 gross tons, 1995 — 1999), and Yushin Maru (720 gross tons, 1999)-- until 1999.
However, the early 1900s brought the invention of factory ships, which processed whales aboard the vessels.
The Nisshin Maru, a factory ship in a Japanese whaling fleet, injured a whale with its first harpoon attempt in January 2006.
Not only that, but we are hearing reports that Japan is building a new factory whaling ship to replace the aging Nisshin Maru.
The conservation group is planning to prevent the Japanese whaling supply ship, the Sun Laurel, from delivering fuel and other supplies to both the whalers and their factory ship.
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.
Meanwhile, even as alternatives to whale oil were developed, so too were powerful new tools for whaling: the exploding harpoon gun that could be used to kill the blue whale and other large, fast - swimming whales, and the factory ships that could render whales into oil and meat on an industrial scale.
A whaler in 1938 boasted that «one modern factory ship can take more whales in one season than the entire American whaling fleet of 1846 which number over 700 vessels.»
He says it is illegal for whale meat to be transported through Chilean territorial waters and the Sea Shepherd has been in touch with the Chilean Navy to keep them updated on the position of the Japanese factory ship.
They located the Japanese fleet on December 31st before they were able to kill a single whale; they then spent over a month keeping two of the three Japanese harpoon boats from killing any whales, while the factory ship and the third harpoon vessel were kept on the run.