Sentences with phrase «when whalers»

The model combines whale population dynamics with an economic model of demand for whales and shows what happens to prices and populations when whalers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) exchange shares.

The species had not been seen outside the Pacific Ocean since the 18th century, when whalers are thought to have harpooned the last Atlantic gray whale.

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But when the only work Fly could find was as a Wall Street scrivener, scratching out copies of endless legal documents, Melville fled, joining a whaler sailing for the Pacific on January 3, 1841.

«Mario is the only guy in the league who, when he has a breakaway — even when there's a guy chasing him — you pretty much know you're going to have to make a great save,» says Scan Burke of the Hartford Whalers.

Everyone expected an emotional letdown to follow, but the Flyers won their 12th straight game that Saturday in Hartford, beating the Whalers 5 - 2, and on the flight home Keenan, so proud of his young team that his eyes misted over when talking about it, helped the stewardesses serve meals.

They are called «right whales» because whalers thought the whales were the «right» ones to hunt, as they float when killed and often swim within sight of the shore.

Their aim was to defend the settlement against Spanish Basque looters — the first non-Arctic whalers — and to get a head start on their competitors when the whaling season started the following summer.

And whalers would benefit when they sell shares because they make money without having to get their feet wet.

Based on Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 book of the same name, it follows whaler Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) when his 1820 expedition under Capt. George Pollard (Benjamin Walker) is thwarted and sunk by a 100 - foot white whale, leaving the crew stranded at sea for 90 days.

The youngest in a long dynasty of whalers — a dying industry in 1849, when the novel is set — Mercy lives with her mother and uncle Mordecai on the shores of Connecticut, missing her father, who has yet to return from the voyage he set out on seven years earlier.

Or I could tell you, madame, monsieur, sir, madam, how this name was given to me — I was christened Parrot because my hair was colored carrot, because my skin was burned to feathers, and when I tumbled down into the whaler, the coxswain yelled, Here's a parrot, captain.

When the killing began, Macquarie Island hosted about 10,000 feral rabbits and 2,500 feral cats, all descended from animals left on the island by visiting whalers circa 1820.

But times changed when the world realized that commercial whalers had slaughtered the gray whales to almost imminent extinction.

When it comes to shopping, just steps from the hotel is Whalers Village Boutique Shopping Center which features over 60 shops & a host of family type restaurants.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Japanese whalers traded charges over the bullet that the conservation group says ended up in the Kevlar vest of Paul Watson, its founder, when the group's ship tangled with a whaling vessel on Friday.

Some 35,000 whales have been taken by whalers in the years since 1986, when the IWC adopted the commercial whaling moratorium, and there are IWC member nations that continue to promote commercial whaling and international trade in the face of the many significant threats to the well - being and survival of cetaceans.

When people talk about the whalers getting hurt, what about the whales?

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Caught in only modest quantities for centuries, the minke whale was largely ignored by commercial whalers until the late 1960's, when the great baleen whales were all but wiped out.

In 1817 when Sir Joseph Banks of the Royal Society heard that whalers had reported that the «Arctic was melting» this included reports from whalers from my own home town.