I built a web interface for viewing The Whale Hunt that attempts to do just this.

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.

International Whaling Commission

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

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So, here you see the cast. These are all of the people in The Whale Hunt and the two whales that were killed down here.

It could have survived 150 years of whaling.

This is out at whale camp, on the Arctic Ocean.

International Whaling Commission, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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.

The first such one is called The Whale Hunt.

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

It's like you've got a whale on the end of the line, ain't it?

Around 1850, one of the biggest U.S. industries was whaling.

42. Leaders recalled their support in 1993 for the International Whaling Commission s moratorium on commercial whaling and the proposal to establish a Southern Ocean Sanctuary.

(b) 1992 International Whaling Commission session in Scotland

We changed our logo, for the day, from the alien to a Splashy, to sort of help the cause.

And in the case of the whale hunt, also this idea of an excitement level.

Well let's return to the year 1819 for a moment, to the situation facing the crew of the whaleship Essex.

293. Catch limits for commercial and for aboriginal subsistence whaling, humane killing of whales, objectives of the Southern Ocean Sanctuary, environmental research, management of small cetaceans and cooperation with other international organizations and the Revised Management Scheme (RMS) were the topics of discussions at the fiftieth Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which was convened at Muscat, Oman, from 16 to 20 May 1998.

So I went up there, and I lived with these guys out in their whaling camp here, and photographed the entire experience, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport in New York, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven and a half days later.

It therefore, on the one hand, denied a request by Japan for an interim relief allocation of 50 minke whales by coastal community based whaling and, on the other, called upon Norway to halt all whaling activities in areas under its national jurisdiction.

This is the end of the chase.

As to the management of small cetaceans, IWC adopted a resolution concerning directed takes of white whales and encouraged a precautionary approach to their management.

He's a whale of a whale!

Japan says that it wants the discussion of whaling to be carried out calmly, on the basis of scientific evidence, without emotion. The Japanese think that humpback whale numbers have increased sufficiently for the killing of 50 to pose no danger to the species.

I think the end of the story of the whaleship Essex offers an illuminating, if tragic, example.

They beached me like a harpooned baby whale... and started to check the damage... just for the record.

Causing suffering to innocent beings without an extremely weighty reason for doing so is wrong. If there were some life or death need that humans could meet only by killing whales, perhaps the ethical case against it could be countered.

This is my studio in Brooklyn. This is the Arctic Ocean, and the butchering of the second whale, seven days later.

294. During the session, IWC upheld its 1982 decision which had set catch limits for commercial whaling at zero.

And some of those whale meat samples were whale meat.

Hello fish!

Now, both species were hunted to the brink of extinction by the early whalers, but the Southern right whales have rebounded a lot better because they're located in places farther away from human activity.

297. In other developments, the Second Meeting of Parties to the Agreement on Small Cetaceans of the Baltic and North Seas (ASCOBANS), held at Bonn from 17 to 19 November 1997, stated that one of the most important issues facing parties was the need to bring about a reduction in the numbers of small cetaceans caught incidentally by fishery activities.

Thirty years ago, Australian vessels, with the government s blessing, killed sperm whales off the West Australian coast. Last month, Australia led international protests against Japan s plan to kill 50 humpback whales.

He also mentioned the real possibility that we are dealing with a creature which has a remarkably developed brain and a high degree of intelligence. Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser s conservative government accepted his recommendation that whaling be stopped, and Australia soon became an anti whaling nation.

Whales

Well, okay, technically it's actually about Greenpeace, which is an environmental organization that wanted to stop the Japanese government on their whaling campaign.

The fifty seventh annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission was held in Ulsan, Republic of Korea from 20 to 24 June 2005.

They came into the yards and picked him up, with some refugees.

This is the whaling camp here, we're about six miles from shore, camping on five and a half feet of thick, frozen pack ice.

Whale speed

Whales!

I suppose they're waiting there for a copper to come and arrest them.