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Pilot whaling through the centuries - an age-old catch for food
Norway. Whale bone finds at Viking Age archeaological excavation sites suggest that the pilot whale was already then a ... in our technological age, pilot whaling in the Faroe Islands has kept its original function as a communal, non-commercial whale drive for free food. A pilot whale drive brings people from all levels ...
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Søtur er sjalvgivin biti. (About pilot whale meat )
Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen - The first thing I noticed when I got up one Saturday morning was the smell. It was the unmistakable odour of fresh pilot whale meat, but how could this be? I didn't remember hearing of a whale drive recently ... pilot whale drive?", my daughter asked. "Yes it was. Her brothers, and 12 other men with them, died in the disastrous pilot whale drive ...
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ASM | Mammals of New York
(Porcupines) Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum common statewide 83, 870(Y) 29 Do not shoot their quills, drive them into tormentors with a flick of their tail. Cause damage by gnawing. CETACEA (Whales ... in Western Atlantic, 9 ft.. Atlantic Pilot Whale Globicephala melanaena common Off Long Is. 929(B), 930(CA) Also called "Blackfish," nocturnal, 28 ft.. 929B Killer Whale Orcinus orca common Off Long Is ...
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SoundNet - Whale fall
MBARI In 1987, a manned submersible called Alvin was making a routine dive along the muddy plains of the deep sea when its pilot ... 21-metre-long skeleton of a blue whale. But atop this mass of bones the pilot did find something exotic: a carpet ... a particular geological feature on the sea floor and drive up to them like you can with hydrothermal vents," says ...
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Environment News Service (ENS)
July 2002 AmeriScan: July 31, 2002 Firefighting Chopper Crash Kills Pilot Lake Okeechobee Lawsuit Filed to Limit Pollutants Entire Pilot Whale Pod Dies off Cape Cod Crabs, Fish Die Without Oxygen ... Reexamine Birmingham Air Quality By Ship, By Plane, Researchers Study Air Pollution Hot Temperatures Drive Smelly Algae Blooms New Climate Simulations Offer Sharper Focus Hazwaste Cleanups Need Community ...
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STW - Pilot Whales
Naval studies have shown that a pilot whale can dive deeper than 2,000 feet on command. Squid is the favored food of pilot whales and determines their ... emissions from power plants and other industrial operations. The pilot whales are killed in traditional slaughters called grindabod. The islanders drive pods of pilot whales to beaches and slit their throats. A ...
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Diving Cocos Island (Isla Del Coco), Costa Rica, Phillip Colla Natural History Photography
Day How We Work Copyright Diving Archival Prints Whales & Dolphins Whales & Dolphins Blue Whale Humpback Whale Gray Whale Sperm Whale Pilot Whale False Killer Krill (food) Red Crabs (food) Pacific White-sided Hawaiian Spinner ... to mainland Costa Rica Day 13: arrive Puntarenas, Costa Rica early am, breakfast on boat, drive to San Jose, overnight in San Jose We travel aboard the Sea Hunter, a ...
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My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys (Do or Die)
Faeroe Islands against the pilot whale slaughter there. My first voyage was in 1985 to interfere with that hunt and the ... used against the pilot whale hunt was simply to place our ship between the whales and the much smaller fishing vessels that would sail out from small ports to drive the whales to ...
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Cause economic damage by gnawing. CETACEA (Whales and Dolphins) Delphinidae (Dolphins) Long Finned Pilot Whale Globicephala melas ... , fast, 30 ft.. Fin(back) Whale Balaenoptera physalus endangered Atlantic 769(A) Second largest whale, longer than 70 ft., very fast. Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus endangered Atlantic 578,  808(A ...
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Short-finned Pilot Whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Short-finned pilot whales have been documented entangled, hooked, and captured in these various types of fishing gear. Drive fisheries that specifically target pilot ... ) Listen to Pilot Whale Sounds Mass Stranding in North Carolina, January 2005 Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS-SEAMAP) Short-finned Pilot Whale Species Profile Watch Short-finned Pilot Whale Video ...
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