In 2018, after 148 years of family ownership, Claudio’s was sold to new owners, ending its run as the oldest family-run ...

Long vanished was the era when Nantucketers could observe from shore as the men and boys of the island pursued the whale. Nantucket was now the whaling capital of the world, but there were more ...

Commercial whaling (distinguished from ASW by its participants, purpose, scale, and techniques) began in the 11 th century with the Basque inhabitants of the French and Spanish coastlines of the Bay ...

Note: Pleased be advised that some of the images of whaling in this video are graphic and may be disturbing for some viewers. This Genevieve Johnson speaking to you from Albany, in Western Australia.

During the commercial whaling era of the 19th and early 20th centuries, humpback whale populations were reduced by an estimated 95%. An international ban on the practice has since helped the ...

the arrival of whaling vessels from New England marked the beginning of the 40-year whaling era in the Kingdom of Hawaii. The historic town of Lahaina was a bustling fishing and whaling port ...

Heavily decimated during the whaling era, the sei whale remains a modern-day enigma, rarely encountered in most parts of the world and with almost nothing known about its populations, ecology or ...

Undeterred by declining appetites for whale meat, and unfazed by global opposition to commercial hunts, Japan's whaling industry is doubling down. Earlier this month, a company unveiled a new ...

Because some whale species can live for up to 100 years, some of today's whales could have been alive during the whaling era. As these whales die, it is possible that additional maternal lineages ...