Commercial whaling (distinguished from ASW by its participants, purpose, scale, and techniques) began in the 11 th century with the Basque inhabitants of the French and Spanish coastlines of the Bay ...

Japan argues that whaling is part of its history and culture. A rigid insistence on maritime sovereignty offers a more convincing explanation for Tokyo’s stance. After a week of heated debate ...

Commercial whaling is back on in Japan after a more than three-decade hiatus. The controversial move comes after the country withdrew from the International Whaling Commission on June 30th.

At the 69 th IWC meeting in 2024, for example, countries voting against both a Resolution on commercial whaling and a ...

Australia and other countries blasted the research whaling as “illegal commercial whaling.” The Nisshin Maru was frequently targeted for sabotage by the Sea Shepherd and other anti-whaling groups.

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 ...

Q: What’s the biggest misunderstanding that people have about commercial whaling in the 20th century? I think the 20th century pattern of moving from blue whales to fin whales to sei whales and ...

The harpooned whales of South Georgia met a brutal fate: winched onto boats then dumped on land, they were dragged to industrial whaling ...

Diplomats from twenty five countries led by Britain's ambassador delivered Wednesday a strongly-worded protest condemning Iceland over its decision to resume commercial whaling. British Ambassador ...

Update: No commercial whaling for fin whales—a threatened species—occurred in Iceland in 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2022, the Hvalur whaling company resumed activities, and 148 fin whales were killed.

The 1982 commercial whaling moratorium is one of the conservation movement's iconic achievements, and environment groups and anti-whaling nations are, at least on the surface, lined up four-square ...