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The Oceanic Resource Foundation: Underwater Photography / Marine Conservation
The Makahs are now planning to revive their dead culture by ceremonial whale hunts. Tribal elders have appealed to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for permission to resume the hunts. As the gray whales have been ...
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Associated welfare and whale killing methods
Special Issue 7 Link to page containing details of IWC publication on whale killing techniques Whale killing methods The IWC has examined methods of killing whales since it established ... Norway have made major improvements in their whale killing technology. This includes advances in the triggering mechanism for the explosive grenades used in the minke whale hunts, and the introduction of an ...
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EIA - The Environmental Investigation Agency: Cetaceans Campaign | Reports & Briefings
Kyokuyo, True World Foods and Japan’s Whale Hunts REVEALED: The link Between Japanese Whale Meat and US Sushi. Last Updated: 14 ... The Gorton's Family Whale Killing Business Gorton’s of Gloucester’s Ties to Japan's Commercial Whale Hunts Last Updated: 1 ... into Japan’s commercial whale, dolphin and porpoise (cetacean) market, and reveals that mercury-contaminated whale, dolphin and porpoise products ...
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To kill a whale Interview with senior veterinarian, Jústines Olsen, on killing methods in the pilot whale hunt
Times have been taken from 181 whales in 3 whale hunts by observers working in pairs, with one person taking the ... can be inserted into the air sac without wounding the whale, and the whale can then be easily guided in the desired direction. ... whale's anatomy and about the correct methods used to kill whales. We have also complied quite a lot of photo and video material from pilot whale hunts ...
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Makah Harpoons prod a Whale of a Dilemma -Editorial, The Seattle Times-
Olympic peninsula. The hunts ended 70 years ago when whale populations plummeted, but the magnificent creatures survived in tribal legend and ... Norwegians, equally ancient whaling cultures that propose to hunt healthy populations of minke whales. Those whale hunts have been firmly opposed by the U.S. American whalers, including many based in ...
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IWMC.org - Victoria Times-Colonist - 07 September 1998
Happynook is the head of the World Council of Whalers, a 20-country group put together two years ago to ready people for hunts ... risk of looking culturally insensitive. The fervor building around whale hunts feels a lot like B.C.'s abortion debates ... the resource," says Happynook. "They can still go whale-watching, do research, whatever-but somewhere in that equation ...
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Whaling
Japanese citizens participate each year in a whale hunt, catching the creatures for scientific purposes – studying the whales' breeding and feeding habits. ... , 10 sperm whales, and 50 endangered sei whales (which were not included in previous whale hunts). The numbers are even greater considering the creatures that get caught accidentally in immense ...
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OTTERNET.COM - Poem
Otters in the sea, otters in the sea When the Killer Whale hunts Because he wants to be fed They wrap up in a ball and pretend to ...
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IWMC.org - A Whale of a Tale
By the late 1960s, world whale populations were suffering from over a century ... regime). Norway and Japan are maligned for their continued whaling, but their hunts hardly pose a threat to whale populations. In the 1997 whaling season Norwegian whalers took 503 minkes in the ...
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Cook Inletkeeper - Watershed Watch - Beluga Whale
Background on the Cook Inlet beluga whale: Alaska Native traditional knowledge tells of beluga subsistence hunts for the past several hundred years in Cook Inlet, and early homesteaders are known to have hunted for food, sport and whale bones. In the early ...
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