Whale watching has grown quite rapidly.

There's a variety of things you can learn from watching whales have sex.

It also considered whale killing methods, animal welfare issues and aboriginal subsistence whaling scientific permits socio economic implications and small type whaling and biological impacts of whale watching on whales.

In 1991, about 4 million people in 31 countries watching whales and other cetaceans generated 317.9 million.

He's a whale of a whale!

One of the best places in the world to see blue whales is here in this region.

The Convention on Migratory Species and its associated agreements, and the Marine Mammal Action Plan (MMAP) have developed guidelines on whale watching and aquaria (which deal with marine mammals held in captivity), both of which are important features of tourism in some areas.

And some of those whale meat samples were whale meat.

Hello fish!

The popularity of whale watching (and watching of other cetaceans) can help raise awareness of the need for conservation of these species, but also, if it is not properly managed, can bring the risk that these species may be adversely affected due to excessive disturbance.

Whales

Whale speed

Whales!

Swallowed by a whale?

I've been working on whales and dolphins in Ireland for 20 years now, and they're kind of a bit more dramatic.

What's a mother to do if the ship comes by and her calf isn't there?

Here's a blue whale call at 50 miles, which was distant for the humpback.

This is the muktuk, or the blubber, all lined up for community distribution.

It's baleen. Moving on.

JPMorgan Inside the Whale

Yeah. A whale?

I brought you a gift from China.

Look at the whale!

We may need to regulate the intensity of recreational boating and actual whale watching in order to prevent these kinds of problems.

It's actually about humpback whales.

This is a bowhead whale.

A whale is a mammal.

International Whaling Commission

The Bible does not say a whale.

Whales cannot be humanely killed they are too large, and even with an explosive harpoon, it is difficult to hit the whale in the right spot. Moreover, whalers do not want to use a large amount of explosive, because that would blow the whale to pieces, while the whole point is to recover valuable oil or flesh.

So the large baleen whales will produce long, beautiful songs, which are used in reproductive advertisement for male and females, both to find one another and to select a mate.

Exceptions to this rule include the Indian Ocean and Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuaries, which have been established by the International Whaling Commission.

There are still some blue whales.

Starving to death in the belly of a whale.

A whale should stay underwater!

Take a little, then a little more until finally you have it all.

And cetaceans moved into a world without bounds.

Humpback whale has scalloped edges on its flippers.

Is London a great big whale?

Why, inside the whale at the bottom of the sea.

Having a whale under his nose 20m long He has awakened an instinct old as the world.

Jonah being swallowed by the whale.

The Commission adopted four resolutions, relating to (a) the Japanese Whale Research Program under Special Permit in the Antarctic (b) facilitating closer cooperation among the range States to expedite sighting surveys for the common minke whales off the Korean Peninsula (c) the western North Pacific gray whale and (d) the Revised Management Scheme process (see www.iwoffice.org meetings meeting2005.htm).

And in 1960, Frank Drake conducted the first SETI observation looking at two stars, Tau Ceti and Epsilon Eridani, for about 150 hours.

These were the men of the whaleship Essex, whose story would later inspire parts of Moby Dick.