Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...

five years after leaving an international body that regulates the commercial hunt of the marine mammals. Japan resumed commercial whaling in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zones in ...

mandated by customary international law and the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.” The post Japanese Commercial Whalers Can Now Hunt Fin Whales first appeared on The Inertia ...

Built at a cost of US$ 47 million, the 9,300-ton Kangei Maru has a slipway to haul up to 70- ton fin whales, and can store up to 600 tons of meat. Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet ...

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.

In 2024, Japan added a new quota of 59 fin whales ... this key segment of Iceland’s tourism industry is a major opponent of whale hunting. Marine biologist Giulia Bellon said it does not ...

TOKYO — Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast fetched up to more than $1,300 per kilo at auction Thursday, as officials try to keep the ...

Kelsey Williamson The study's scientists observed four separate hunting encounters in which the orca pod encountered and attacked a whale shark. Kelsey Williamson provided photos from the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast fetched up to more than $1,300 per kilogram (2.2 lbs) at auction Thursday, as ...

Animal rights activist Paul Watson, freed this week from detention in Denmark, vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting worldwide and to stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.

vowed on Saturday to end whale hunting around the world and stop Japan if it tried to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean. Watson, a 74-year-old Canadian-American, returned to France on Friday ...