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Sentence Examples The artifacts from Ozette testify to the central role of whaling in the Tribe before contact with westerners. After a long campaign by several environment groups, the International Whaling Commission imposes a moratorium on commercial whaling. The widescale whaling of the past exists no longer, and most whales are now protected under international law. A quarter of a century after whaling was banned in Australian waters, whale watching has become a tourism success story. This situation eased in 1986 when the international Whaling Commission declared a moratorium on whaling. Iceland, Japan and Norway want to abandon the ban and threatened to begin commercial whaling with or without international agreement. Japan's ambassador to Australia, Hideaki Ueda, said last week that he hoped that the IWC would soon allow a return to commercial whaling. He's continuing to call for caution in allowing commercial whaling in the foreseeable future. What is the effect of the increasing whale watching industry, which like whaling before it, ranges from feeding to birthing grounds? Japan will lead the charge to overturn a ban on commercial whaling when the International Whaling Commission meets in just over a week. With whaling still outlawed, the Japanese are out of practice when it comes to taking out large blubbery mammals. They set about dismantling the old whaling station and raised the Argentine flag. Despite the ban on commercial whaling, many whales are caught in Korean waters. Our attack at the moment is to expose the fraud of commercial whaling under the guise of scientific whaling. In order to catch a better glimpse of the radiant whaling boat, Kirstle and Tashi both ran down the wharves to the dock where she was to land. With the start of the Pacific war, however, virtually all deep-sea fishing and whaling came abruptly to an end. This will lay the ground rules for anyone who tries to seek an exception to go whaling in the future. The whaling canoes are stored in a wooden shed, idle for the past six years. The debate over whether or not commercial whaling should resume turns in large measure on the extent to which whale stocks have recovered. Polls in Japan show support for whaling is dwindling among the mainstream public. Show More Sentences In the late 18th and early 19th centuries lumbering, seal hunting, and whaling attracted a few European settlers to New Zealand. Last week saw delegates gather for their annual talkfest on whaling, at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Italy. Pigeon Island was later a whaling station, a U.S. naval relay station during WWII, and home to a retired British actress. She follows the young men to New Bedford and disguises herself as a cabin boy on their whaling vessel. They had to cross the mountains, glaciers and snowfields to reach the whaling station on the other side. This road takes you past the old whaling station that is to be converted to a visitors centre at some point. One of the small craft, an eight-metre whaling chalupa was found pinned beneath the collapsed starboard side of a 200-tonelada whaling vessel. The island is particularly well known for its whaling boats, pointed at both ends and up to about thirty feet long. Modern whaling began in 1868, when the harpoon gun and explosive harpoon were invented. This hindered the ability to pass on whaling traditions to future generations. There are many 19 th-century illustrations of the disastrous possibilities that could befall a whaling boat at close quarters with a whale. The document declared that the 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling had been intended as a temporary measure and is no longer necessary. Its stern was marred by a gigantic chute, a ramp from sea to deck such as whaling ships use to drag aboard the 190-ton carcasses of blue whales. Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment was that of Holland. Upon his return from his whaling voyages, his ships were laden with typical whaling ship cargo like sperm oil and whalebone. Since the international ban on whaling 21 years ago, cruising sailboats have replaced whalers as the primary visitors to the islands. On the surface, it is both an adventure story set upon the high seas and a compendium of information about whales and the whaling industry. Alice Roberts looks back at Dundee's history of whaling and meets former whalers who risked their lives in this now reviled industry. Beer cans popped and cheers rang out as five whaling ships returned to their home ports after weeks away in the waters of the North Pacific. While she was there, aged 16, she watched whaling boats set out on the North Sea, and heard reports of one becoming stuck fast in the ice. Show More Sentences Iceland's delegation responded by walking out of the meeting and threatening to resume commercial whaling with or without approval. But the biggest issues for me, mate, was sealing, whaling and the killing of penguins. When the Makahs stopped whaling in the 1920s it was because commercial whalers, harpooning all they could find, had nearly driven the gray whales to extinction. Formerly hunters of Pacific sperm whale, these whaling fleets came to Arctic regions following the bowhead whale migration to the Beaufort Sea for summer feeding. The whaling ship Terra Nova sailed from New Zealand in November 1910 and the expedition set off from base the following October, with mechanical sledges, ponies and dogs. Cruise-ship passengers take in vistas of glaciated mountains and lichen-covered islands, stopping to visit penguin colonies, seal beaches, and abandoned whaling stations. But for anti-whaling campaigners, this tragicomic greenwash is the least of a series of bitter ironies that look set to ring in a return to commercial whaling. Black fish is the local name for the pilot whale, hunted for food, and it reminded me that whaling is still very much a raw issue in these islands. Their stocks were severely depleted by whaling, and they remain low. Among Kangaroo Island's earliest industries, apart from the whaling and sealing, were shipbuilding, salt harvesting, quarrying and the production of eucalyptus oil. The Court concluded that the Hunts are actually whaling expeditions, not scientific research as Japan has claimed for many years. For a Norwegian combined fishing and whaling vessel, typically 65 feet in length, this means passing the seasons catching saithe, herring, cod and minke whales. Patrick, dressed in a cedar-bark shirt and basket-like hat, filled us in on the Northwest Indians, whaling, copper mining, totem poles and potlatch ceremonies. His great grandfather sailed from Cape Verde and was involved in the whaling industry of Nantucket Island, Mass. I do have a certain amount of moral discomfort because of the situation with whaling. Bronstein makes an annual offer to send crews aboard the Japanese whaling fleet or even just interview representatives. The replica whaleboat presented to the Batavia Long Boat Replica Project Foundation in January is set to play a key role in a documentary about the whaling ship Catalpa. Whaling stations were set up on Spitzbergen, which teemed with life during the whaling season, reverting to a ghost town once the whalers had left. Whaling ended here in 1964 and since then the nearby whaling station rusted to a skeleton, the whalers dispersed and their numbers declined much like the whales. The story of whaling in Eden is much more than just a story about a bygone industry or even a story about an amazing partnership between man and beast. Show More Sentences From that time on for over ten years I stuck to Athneal like a pilot fish and he taught me, not only whaling and its history in the islands but about Bequia life as well. He reached South Georgia, but landed on the wrong side of the island and had to cross 26 miles of mountainous terrain, before reaching a whaling station to raise the alarm. In calm seas and glorious weather, the ship made landfall off the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken, and secured to the Admiralty buoy in Cumberland Bay. The last significant innovation in whalecraft combined characteristics of the harpoon and the whaling gun. Many argued that the feasibility study itself was commercial whaling. Still, while most Japanese may not care for the meat, many object to calls to stop whaling. The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship. If time was available, whaling prospects poor, and the weather gentle, a gam might last all day and include tea and dinner. There was a miniature of a whaling ship in a glass bottle over the mantlepiece. Expansion of the whaling industry was triggered by the second Bounty Act, introduced in 1750 to increase Britain's maritime and naval skill base. A significant whaling industry was also based in Dundee, largely existing to supply the jute mills with whale oil. The whaling stations' tryworks were unpleasant and dangerous places to work. In 1909, an administrative centre and residence were established at King Edward Point on South Georgia, near the whaling station of Grytviken. Sailing vessels are now required to anchor out and can no longer tie up to the old whaling piers on shore. Commercial whaling is practised intermittently along with scientific whale hunts. By the end of the 1930s, they were the target of coastal whaling by Brazil, Canada, China, Greenland, Japan, Korea, Norway, and South Africa. The stated purpose of the research is to establish data to support a case for the resumption of sustainable commercial whaling. Environmental organizations and several governments contend that research whaling is simply a cover for commercial whaling. The total historical North Pacific population was estimated at 42,000 to 45,000 before the start of whaling. Iceland and Norway are not bound by the IWC's moratorium on commercial whaling because both countries filed objections to it. Show More Sentences Iceland carried out four years of scientific whaling between 1986 and 1989, killing up to 40 sei whales a year. Like other large whales, the humpback was a target for the whaling industry. In December 1883, a male humpback swam up the Firth of Tay in Scotland, past what was then the whaling port of Dundee. Sperm whaling declined in the second half of the nineteenth century, as petroleum came into broader use. Sperm whaling in the eighteenth century began with small sloops carrying only one or two whaleboats. Since whaling ended the primary concern to conservationists is the number of oil and gas developments around the Gully. An industrial drive fishery was started in the Trinity Bay area of Newfoundland, Canada in 1947 by a Norwegian whaling captain. Prior to the advent of industrial whaling, great whales may have been the major food source for killer whales. Commercial sealing was historically just as important an industry as whaling. First deployed to disrupt the hunt of the Icelandic whaling fleet, the Rainbow Warrior would quickly become a mainstay of Greenpeace campaigns. The primary threats to cetaceans come from people, both directly from whaling or drive hunting and indirect threats from fishing and pollution. In the Middle Ages, reasons for whaling included their meat, oil usable as fuel and the jawbone, which was used in house construction. At the end of the Middle Ages, early whaling fleets aimed at baleen whales, such as bowheads. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch fleet had about 300 whaling ships with 18,000 crewmen. Japanese whaling ships are allowed to hunt whales of different species for ostensibly scientific purposes. Iceland and Norway do not recognize the ban and operate commercial whaling. Commercial sealing was historically just as important as the whaling industry. Consequently, the shipbuilding industry developed in many islands, from small fishing boats, to whaling sloops to larger passenger services. The islands were first taken into use as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries, after which they were abandoned. The largest damage to the Norwegian Sea was caused by extensive fishing, whaling, and pollution. Show More Sentences During the peaks of whaling, some 300 ships with 12,000 crew members were yearly visiting Svalbard. Ships of the Hudson's Bay Company were regular visitors, as were whaling fleets. The Basques started whaling as early as the 11th century, sailing as far as Newfoundland in the 16th century in search of right whales. The most successful whaling nations at this time were the Netherlands, Japan, and the United States. Commercial whaling was historically important as an industry well throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. There are indications of a whaling industry there dating to the ninth century, possibly introduced by Norsemen. Managers and other senior officers of the whaling stations often lived together with their families. She was a daughter of Fridthjof Jacobsen, the assistant manager of the whaling station, and Klara Olette Jacobsen. The Greenland Sea was a popular hunting ground for the whaling industry for 300 years, until 1911, primarily based in Spitsbergen. Several expeditions set out to find the way, generally with whaling ships, already commonly used in the cold northern latitudes. Then Basque and Portuguese mariners established seasonal whaling and fishing outposts along the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century. During this period, Alaskan natives were able to continue their whaling activities. The Cape developed as a large fishing and whaling center as a result, and also because of its geographic position. Following Cook, New Zealand was visited by numerous European and North American whaling, sealing and trading ships. The term is not normally applied to catching farmed fish, or to aquatic mammals, such as whales where the term whaling is more appropriate. The two flue harpoon was the primary weapon used in whaling around the world, but it cut through the blubber when under stress. In 1870, a Norwegian man named Svend Foyn successfully patented and pioneered the modern exploding whaling harpoon and gun. The most important commodities, after herring, were sugar and whale oil, the latter from whaling off Greenland. They established whaling stations at the former, mainly in Red Bay, and probably established some in the latter as well. The island was first used as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries, after which it was abandoned. Show More Sentences The English subsequently established a whaling station in Trinity Harbor, on what is now called Gravneset. Here they were found by the heavily armed flagship of the London whaling fleet, the Hercules, under admiral William Goodlad. In late May 1865, the Confederate States Navy steamer Shenandoah sailed into the Sea of Okhotsk to hunt Union whaling ships. From the 1790s, New Zealand was visited by British, French and American whaling, sealing and trading ships. Many British whaling ships carried letters of marque allowing them to prey on American whalers, and they nearly destroyed the industry. The younger the respondent, the lower the support for whaling. The old whalebones came from a 113-ton Fin Whale, killed in the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic by the Norwegian whaling ship Thorshovdi. This former whaling village, halfway between Santa Cruz and Monterey, has yet to be gentrified. We flensed the whale, much in the way sailors would have done on a whaling ship. How comes all this, if there be not something puissant in whaling? In 1626 this station was damaged by York and Hull whalers, who then sailed to their whaling station in Midterhukhamna, just across the entrance of Van Keulenfjorden. The ruling was a major victory for whaling opponents, as it ends for now one of the world's biggest whale hunts, for minkes in the icy Southern Ocean. In 1613, Basque, Dutch, and French whaling vessels resorted to Bellsund, but were either ordered away by armed English vessels or forced to pay a fine of some sort. Despite its remote location and barren nature, the island has seen commercial activities in past centuries, such as coal mining, fishing and whaling. In 1953, the second Willem Barentsz whaling ship was produced. He joined a whaling crew, paddled his own umiak, drove dog sleds. The Temple toggle was widely used, and quickly came to dominate whaling. In the United States, Pilot gig racing is becoming increasingly more popular especially on the New England coastline where whaling played a major part in industry. Small sculptures of animals and human figures, usually depicting everyday activities such as hunting and whaling, were carved from ivory and bone. The men raced about decks collecting the whaling craft and gear and putting them into the boats, while all the time the lookouts hollered from above. Show More Sentences But, in the high Arctic, the Inuit were forced to abandon their hunting and whaling sites as bowhead whales disappeared from Canada and Greenland. The species found raise the question of whether a whaling or sealing industry existed as such or whether the bones came from opportunistic scavenging. These are not animals requiring whaling voyages on the high seas. The size and rapid growth of the industry has led to complex and continuing debates with the whaling industry about the best use of whales as a natural resource. Iceland, Japan and Norway have both whaling and whale watching industries. The worldwide population of Hyperoodon Ampullatus is not known, but they are thought to have been seriously depleted by heavy whaling activity during the last century. Current whaling nations are Norway, Iceland, and Japan, despite their joining to the IWC, as well as the aboriginal communities of Siberia, Alaska, and northern Canada. The Norwegian Sea off the coast regions appeared on the maps in the 17th century as an important part of the then sought Northern Sea Route and a rich whaling ground. However, Japan self awards its own whaling quota, and this year has allocated itself up to 935 Minke Whales and 50 Fin Whales to be caught and killed in the Antarctic. The comments of former whaling fleet captain Vladimir Dobralskiy echo the kill-at-all-costs credo that operated for years in the Soviet Union's whaling industry. With the end of the whaling industry, the stations were abandoned. Svalbard has historically been a base for both whaling and fishing. Most descriptions of large whales from this time until the whaling era, beginning in the 17th century, were of beached whales, which resembled no other animal. They began whaling in the Bay of Biscay as early as the eleventh century. Most monitored stocks have rebounded since the end of commercial whaling. While whaling no longer threatens the species, individuals are vulnerable to collisions with ships, entanglement in fishing gear and noise pollution. Since the moratorium on commercial whaling, some sei whales have been taken by Icelandic and Japanese whalers under the IWC's scientific research programme. Three years later, in 2006, Iceland resumed commercial whaling. A whaling station was set up around the bay, which they called Butus, now named Red Bay after the red terracotta roof tiles they brought with them. Many Orcadian seamen became involved in whaling in Arctic waters during the 19th century, although the boats were generally based elsewhere in Britain. Show More Sentences They vigorously pursued whaling, privateering, and the merchant trade. There are an estimated 128,000 pilot whales in the Northeast Atlantic, and Faroese whaling is therefore considered a sustainable catch by the Faroese government. Faroese animal welfare legislation, which also applies to whaling, requires that animals are killed as quickly and with as little suffering as possible. In recent years, Greenland and the Faroe Islands have been guaranteed a say in foreign policy issues such as fishing, whaling, and geopolitical concerns. The Makahs, under the 1855 Treaty of Neah Bay, are the only Native American group in the United States that has a treaty that specifically allows whaling. Beginning about 1832, it added numerous ships to the whaling fleet. Examples from Classical Literature The father of these three children had been lost at sea on a whaling voyage. This vessel had been whaling in 256the southern seas during five years, without any adequate return for her perseverant exertions. I suppose the Colonel goes down to the Ship Chandler's and gams with the old whaling captains. The whaling in Baffin Bay shows a sudden falling off and it seems that the number of ships will be greatly reduced. Since 1922, no whaling has been conducted in the territorial waters of southeastern Alaska. Are you not the precious image of each and all of us men in this whaling world? During the interval, they sighted three other whaling craft, and stopped to gam with them. In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts. I opine, that it is plainly traceable to the first arrival of the Greenland whaling ships in London, more than two centuries ago. The longevity of Cape Horn whaling voyages is proverbial, frequently extending over a period of four or five years. Here be it said that in a whaling voyage the first fire in the try-works has to be fed for a time with wood. Besides, they would exchange the whaling news, and have an agreeable chat. Why did the Dutch in De Witt's time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business. High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about the water on castors like gouty old aldermen in patent chairs. People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing in good interest. Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed. This, then, was the famous and dreaded solander whaling ground. It was an ideal place for a whaling station, being right on the solander. I asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore, and whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons. Show More Sentences Perhaps the only formal whaling code authorized by legislative enactment, was that of Holland. And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. Just so with whaling, which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers. During my researches in the leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers. Why did the Dutch in DeWitt's time have admirals of their whaling fleets? But not to speak of the quality of these articles of sailors' fare, the abundance in which they are put onboard a whaling vessel is almost incredible. But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter. Pulling an oar in the Jeroboam's boat, was a man of a singular appearance, even in that wild whaling life where individual notabilities make up all totalities. The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picturesqueness of things seems to be peculiarly evinced in what paintings and engravings they have of their whaling scenes. One of them was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitzbergen who had been brought away by a whaling captain, and who had later accompanied a Geological Survey into the Barrens. There is a Leviathanic Museum, they tell me, in Hull, England, one of the whaling ports of that country, where they have some fine specimens of fin-backs and other whales. Find more words! 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