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Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. [1] However, Japanese whaling on an industrial scale began around the 1890s when Japan started to participate in the modern whaling industry, at that time an industry in which many countries participated. [2]
Japan may have a long and storied history of whaling dating back to the Edo period in the 1600s, but experts say whale meat consumption only really peaked after World War II – when food sources ...
After the Russo-Japanese War, Taiji's whaling industry became buoyant again as it became a base for modern whaling. When the practice of Antarctic whaling started, Taiji provided crews for the whaling fleet. [8] In 1988, Taiji suspended commercial whaling as a result of a ruling by the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
Photo of a whaling station in Spitsbergen, Norway, 1907. This article discusses the history of whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling has been an important subsistence and economic activity in multiple regions throughout human history.
Japan's Fisheries Agency has proposed a plan to allow catching fin whales in addition to three smaller whale species currently permitted under the country's commercial whaling around its coast ...
The Nisshin Maru (日新丸) was the primary vessel [5] of the Japanese whaling fleet and was the world's only whaler factory ship. [6] It was the research base ship for the Institute of Cetacean Research for 2002 to 2007. [7]
After nets were introduced into whaling in 1675, the industry spread throughout Japan. [5] Dolphin drive hunting, in which small cetaceans are herded towards the land, exists as a form of aboriginal whaling in coastal communities around the world, from the Faroe Islands to the Solomon Islands. It has been practiced in various parts of Japan as ...
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