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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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English
Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. …
substantial related thread of writ- ing about American whaling crews.16 Nordic seafaring is perhaps best studied …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 7 June 2024 English
Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when …
Studies of Harvard University; the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, ma; the National Archives … State Historical Society, Tacoma, Wa; and the Whaling and Marine Manuscript Archive, Nantucket, ma. In … troublesome and more hazardous for the Nootkas than whaling, for the otter was wary and cunning, an excellent …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 14 May 2024 English
NEW EDITION OF THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERTravel personality Robin Esrock explores the most unique experiences in British Columbia and Alberta in this inspiring, expanded guide from the bestselling Bucket List series.Having …
moss and fern. We walk among the ruins of an old whaling station in Rose Harbour and pick up Japanese garbage …
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 …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 January 2024 English
The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the …
working to shed light on the history of Basque whaling and fishing by means of archaeological research … commercial networks linking French and Basque whaling and sealing stations to Inuit communities far to …
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 …
