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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.
The IWC ban on commercial whaling has been very successful, with only Iceland, Japan and Norway still engaging in and supporting commercial hunting. [4] They also support having the IWC moratorium lifted on certain whale stocks for hunting. [5] Anti-whaling countries and environmental activists oppose lifting the ban.
Whaling in Japan (20 P) N. Whaling in the Netherlands (1 C, 5 P) ... Pages in category "Whaling by country" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Japan said it was disappointed after Denmark rejected its extradition request for anti-whaling activist Paul Watson. Mr Watson, 74, founder of the Sea Shepherd group, was released from jail in ...
The decision, some experts said, allows Japan to save the money it spends to support Antarctic whaling while taking a tough pro-whaling stance - a matter of national pride for some conservatives.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country’s coast to fin whales, a larger species than the three currently permitted. The proposal comes five years after Japan resumed commercial whaling within its exclusive economic zone after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission in ...
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 ...
Harpoon ships of the Icelandic whaling fleet in port. Since the 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling, few countries still operate whalers, with Norway, Iceland, and Japan among those still operating them. Of those, the Nisshin Maru of Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) is the only whaling factory ship in operation.