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Study delves into increase in humpback whale sightings in UK and Ireland
04 Apr 2025 14:57 GMT
… recovering after a ban on commercial whaling in 1986. But one reason …
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How a Gold Rush for Krill Dietary Supplements Is Killing Antarctica
04 Apr 2025 10:42 GMT
… .
Moreover, while the end of commercial whaling has allowed populations to rebound …
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The Makah Tribe is Calling Back the Whales
03 Apr 2025 22:58 GMT
… over the decades that followed, commercial whaling operations decimated whale populations. To …
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Watch: Rare right whale sighting off Florida coast
03 Apr 2025 14:38 GMT
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Why are right whales endangered?
Commercial whaling decimated the right whale population …
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Minke whaling season begins off Hokkaido with first catch
03 Apr 2025 07:33 GMT
NEMURO, Hokkaido–This year’s commercial whaling of minke whales has begun … by late April.
Japan resumed commercial whaling in 2019 after withdrawing from …
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Makah eagerly await permit to hunt grey whales
02 Apr 2025 04:23 GMT
… to hunt whales when the commercial whaling industry overharvested some species to …
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Humpbacks are back: Group snaps photos as whales return to Island waters
02 Apr 2025 01:45 GMT
… ) says.
In the early 1900s, commercial whaling extirpated humpbacks from the Salish …
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Commercial whaling and climate change are inhibiting evolutionary change in Arctic whales
28 Oct 2024 21:23 GMT
… /Kristin Laidre, NOAA
Has commercial whaling affected genetic variation in Arctic … in bowhead whales concurrent with commercial whaling, a clear indication of the … are not doing great, either. Commercial whaling has decreased the effective population …
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The Conversation: Commercial whaling and climate change are inhibiting evolutionary change in Arctic whales
28 Oct 2024 23:18 GMT
October 28, 2024 —
As written in The Conversation by Matt J. Thorstensen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba
Bowhead whales are the longest-lived mammals on Earth with some able to live hundreds of years. What’s …
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West Africa's endorsement of commercial whaling alarms green groups
08 Oct 2024 09:47 GMT
… supporting a proposal to resume commercial whaling – claiming it would help fight … four-decade-old moratorium on commercial whaling at the International Whaling Commission … used for Japan's commercial whaling interests,” Djondo said.
Meanwhile Guy …