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Stretching the truth: length data highlight falsification of Japanese sperm whale catch statistics in the Southern Hemisphere [PDF]
Falsification of reports on Japanese catches of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) is known to have occurred at both land whaling stations and in North Pacific factory fleets. Here, we conduct an analysis of pelagic sperm whale catches in the Southern
Phillip J. Clapham+1 more
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Estimating the impact of whaling on global whale-watching [PDF]
After the commercial whaling moratorium was enacted in 1986, whale watching became one of the fastest growing tourism industries worldwide. As whaling was regarded as an activity that is incompatible with whale watching, the possible resumption of commercial whaling caused an urgent need to investigate the potential negative effects of whaling on the ...
Hsiao-I Kuo+4 more
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Right whales (Eubalaena spp.) were the focus of worldwide whaling activities from the 16th to the 20th century. During the first part of the 19th century, the southern right whale (E. australis) was heavily exploited on whaling grounds around New Zealand
Emma L Carroll+3 more
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La chasse à la baleine chez les Aïnous et leurs traditions préhistoriques dans l’archipel du Japon
The Ainu is an ethnic group native to Hokkaido in the north part of Japanese Archipelago. Their territory also previously extended to the island of Sakhalin and the Chishima Islands. This knowledge and experience, was maintained by the Ainu.
Kazuharu Takehana
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Whaling, Bullfighting, and the Conditional Value of Tradition
The paper develops an account of the value of tradition that completes that of Samuel Scheffler and employs it to discuss whaling and bullfighting. The discussion, however, is applicable to many other practices the paper describes, and its relevance ...
P. Casal
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Around 176 500 whales were killed in the sub-Antarctic waters off South Georgia (South Atlantic) between 1904 and 1965. In recent decades, whales have once again become summer visitors, with the southern right whale (SRW) the most commonly reported ...
J. Jackson+22 more
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The massive impact that open-boat historical whaling (18th to 20th centuries) had on whale populations has been traditionally estimated from records of oil and baleen plate production.
M. Vighi+5 more
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Pre-whaling genetic diversity and population ecology in eastern Pacific gray whales: insights from ancient DNA and stable isotopes. [PDF]
Commercial whaling decimated many whale populations, including the eastern Pacific gray whale, but little is known about how population dynamics or ecology differed prior to these removals.
S Elizabeth Alter+2 more
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This study develops preliminary estimates of total whaling-induced mortality of northern right whales in the 19 th century North Pacific pelagic whale fishery.
J. E. Scarff
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Dawid Bunikowski and Alan D. Hemmings (eds.), Philosophies of Polar Law (New York: Routledge, 2021)
A review of the book: Dawid Bunikowski and Alan D. Hemmings (eds.), Philosophies of Polar Law (New York: Routledge, 2021)
Jonathan Wood
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