The statement confirmed that 333 whales, including a number of pregnant females, have been harpooned in Antarctic waters by the whalers since December. Specifically, the coordinates provided ...

Gray whales, which can grow up to 50 feet in length, earned the nickname "devil fish" because of their ability to fight back when harpooned by whale hunters in the 20th century. They are ...

years of lawsuits and international pressure forced Japan to lower its annual quota of Minke whales from 1,000 to 333, and the two boats of Kristján Loftsson, Iceland’s last whaler, harpooned ...

such as the number of whales spotted or harpooned. Although they were in high demand for their whalebone, ivory, and blubber and almost 80,000 'voyage days' recorded, there were only 2,405 ...

Japan harpooned hundreds of whales across the Pacific every year on the pretext of studying their migration routes and to obtain data on whale numbers, their health and breeding patterns.

The whales will be harpooned by a smaller vessel and then brought, dead, to the Kangei Maru where a powerful winch can haul carcasses weighing up to 70 tonnes up a ramp and onto a lower deck ...