Whaling

Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil which became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry as early as 875 AD. By the 16th century, it had risen to be the principal industry in the coastal regions of Spain and France. The industry spread throughout the world, and became increasingly profitable in terms of trade and resources. Some regions of the world's oceans, along the animals' migration routes, had a particularly dense whale population, and …

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PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 23 February 2024 English

In particular, a long-term decreasing trend of the upwelling index during the summer seasons of 1948-2018 was reported for the Korean coast and considered to be caused by the changes …

attenuate). Because of the intense commercial whaling practices up to about the second half of the 20th Commercial whaling in the North Pacific has been prohibited by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) et al. 55 Japanese survey: In Japan, commercial whaling in the Region 19 was conducted until 1975 for fin 1985 for minke whales (Allison, 2013). Commercial whaling for Baird's beaked whales was conducted from 1999 database version 6.1 (18 July 2016). International Whaling Commission, Cambridge. Antonov, J.I., Seidov, D


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 15 February 2024 English

The tentative title of the paper is “Climate Variability and Ecosystem Resilience in the North Pacific; Lessons Learned from the PICES FUTURE Program.” Since a critical component of Phase III …

around Australia; and understanding the impacts of whaling and climate change on whales and krill across Southern Korea, Russia, and understanding the impacts of whaling and climate and the USA. The theme of the conference


CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 9 January 2024 English

One of the many impacts of our multi-year Afghanistan contribution was to sensitize both politicians and senior bureaucrats to the risks associated with unknown outcomes.11 A combination of events, all …

example, pirates often employed twelve-metre-long whaling vessels as motherships. Restrictive rules of engagement


Wilson Center Canada · 23 October 2023 English

https://doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2023.34 Published online by Cambridge University Press

majority-controlled organs such as the International Whaling Commission,103 and, a fortiori, within an ATCM Instrument: Potential Broader Implications of the Whaling Judgment, 58 JAPANESE Y.B. INT’L L. 298, 306–09 Opinion, 1980 ICJ Rep. 73, para. 43 (Dec. 20); Whaling in the Antarctic (Austl. v. Japan, N.Z. Intervening)


Oceans North · 4 August 2023

The fact that Churchill West Peninsula became a cultural The Beluga News has unearthed a copy of the 150-page report contact zone is at least partially explained by the justifying …

study by the United Nations arctic exploration; whaling; the fur trade; missionary Educational, Scientific


Oceans North · 21 July 2023 English

A dose of and in the hope of a future of abundance and well-being in caution can help reduce the risk of mistakes, but neither the Canadian Arctic and beyond. …

Arctic waters began with the advent of commercial whaling in the 19th century, in Baffin Bay, Hudson Strait (Monodon monoceros) and other marine mammals through whaling in the 19th century, in Baffin Bay, Hudson Strait from the oil in the blubber. Intense commercial whaling significantly reduced the Bowhead population. It


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 20 May 2023 English

One of the few biographies of an Inuk man from the 19th Century—separated from his family, community, and language—finding his place in history. Augustine Tataneuck was an Inuk man born …

resources. An anthropologist, Franz Boas, and a whaling captain, George Comer, simi- larly provide surrogate


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 May 2023 English

A silent clapboard church on a barren Arctic landscape is more than just a place of worship: it is a symbol that can evoke fraught reactions to the history of …

activities that involve music performances: the Whaling Festival, which seems to be based entirely on


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 14 April 2023 English

RCP2.6 for the mid time point (2050) (b) and end time point (2099) (c), and under climate scenario SSP5-RCP8.5 for the mid (d) and end (e) time point is included. …

the Right Whale Sei Whale residual impacts of whaling, has led to the serious decline of many NWA baleen


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 21 March 2023 English

Ingvaldsen is Principal Investigator for the long-term monitoring of the marine climate of the Barents Sea and is leading the “The living Barents Sea” as part of the Nansen LEGACY …

ecosystem processes or anthropogenic pressure such as whaling. (S14-16189 Oral) Arctic ecosystem impact assessment


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