Sentences with phrase «whaling stations near»

Shore - based whaling stations near Victoria on Vancouver Island, using only row boats and hand - thrown harpoons, removed the entire population in less than a decade.

They were totally extirpated from the San Juan Islands by a small whaling station near Victoria, B.C. in the 1930s.

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The real damage was done between 1911 and 1933, when Japanese whalemen killed 1,449 after Japanese companies established several whaling stations on Korean Peninsula and on Chinese coast such as near the Daya bay and on Hainan Island.

These sources included: (1) records of gray whale catches off the Korean coast between 1948 and 1966), (2) an observation of four gray whales in the western Okhotsk Sea in 1967 and (3) a sighting of a mother - Remote research station used since 1995 to conduct research on gray whales feeding off Sakhalin Island seen in the background, while a gray whale feeds near shore in the foreground.