Whales killed in Iceland in 2009 ... Livermore said. “Being harpooned is an unnecessary threat that these animals do not have ...

years of lawsuits and international pressure forced Japan to lower its annual quota of Minke whales from 1,000 to 333, and the two boats of Kristján Loftsson, Iceland’s last whaler, harpooned ...

It has been 25 years since the Makah tribe last harpooned a gray whale, a practice its members consider a sacred tradition but was restricted by federal regulation. But on Thursday, the tribe was ...

even though fewer whales were being harpooned. But there was another stressor at the time: global war. “We suspect this increase in cortisol during World War II is probably a result of noise ...

The gray whales make a remarkable 10,000-to-12,000 ... the name "devil fish" for the fight they would put up after being harpooned. But now, other than an occasional feisty male, they are pretty ...

A 1977 image of a whale being harpooned by a Russian vessel was among a series of whaling photos from Greenpeace which shocked the world (Credit: Rex Weyler) In the 1970s, a small group of ...

The Makalik crew was not able to harvest some parts of their whale but gathered as much as they could safely, she said. “My 15-year-old son, Hunter Qimmiuraq Wilhelm, harpooned his first whale ...

JAPAN, August 5, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Less than 10 days after the arrest of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson in Greenland, Japan harpoons its first endangered ...