Sentences with phrase «whaling industry which»
Today, six decades after the IWC formed, and a quarter century after its adoption of the moratorium, it is not only legally valid, but abundantly justified by current environmental circumstances, for the IWC to place greater emphasis on conservation rather than maintaining a commercial whaling industry which has so thoroughly run aground in terms of its acceptability to the global community.
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The old estimates were based on 20th - century data from the whaling industry itself, which estimated a worldwide sperm - whale population of about 1.8 million, a number that few scientists found credible.
As I explain in an article for tomorrow's paper, the humpback is the marquis species of the fast - growing whale - watching industry, which is far larger than the limited trade in whale meat, mainly in Japan and Norway.
Whale watching is a large and growing industry in many countries, which can provide an educational and non-consumptive way for people to profit from living whales.
«Deepwater Wind is proud to sign this historic agreement to help protect the North Atlantic right whale,» said Jeffrey Grybowski, CEO of Deepwater Wind, which led the industry in developing the agreement, tasking its construction and environmental permitting staffs to share information with leading national experts on the North Atlantic right whale and leading the dialogue that gave rise to the agreement.
Other anthropogenic pressures, such as intensive fisheries and the past whaling industry (which principally targeted sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus) might have triggered top - down effects.
The Norwegian government needs to stop defending and justifying this cruel and unnecessary industry when their resources would be much better invested in developing tourism, whale watching, which is much more profitable, sustainable and humane for the whales.