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Japan's government said it was considering strengthening security for the whaling fleet, but did not elaborate.

so that, by the time the captain's party was ready to sail, there were several other whaling vessels on the point of starting.

Japan should think about giving up Antarctic "research" , he said, in return for a limited resumption of commercial coastal whaling.

For the past several years he's been trying to stop the hunt in Taiji, one of Japan's iconic whaling towns.

Still, looking at a replica of a whaling ship in the museum, Mr Lang wonders whether groundfish boats will end up in a museum, too.

This was a minor episode compared with a manoeuvre a week earlier bythe Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling body.

Moreover, he threw himself into an important friendship, at a time when he had probably written one draft of his sixth book, on whaling.

Japan take advantage of this loophole, by the name of scientific research whaling, killing hundreds of whales each year.

Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer.

If the whaling disappears it would make me feel sad, because that means that the particular form of the culture fades out.

There has always been an element of theatre to the meetings of the IWC, which was set up in 1946 to regulate whaling around the world.

Sea Shepherd has pledged to be there too. This was the closest Japan has come in 25 years to ending its Antarctic whaling programme.

Japanese whaling was always going to be a major sticking point on the IWC agenda in Madeira.

The Pequod was a fairly small whaling ship the was sailing the next day.

Japan and its allies must win the support of three-quarters of the IWC's members to overturn the moratorium on whaling adopted back in 1982.

Greenpeace activists will take peaceful direct action against the fleet if it restarts whaling.

Villagers often drive young whales, not banned by the International Whaling Commis-sion, into the shallow bay to be killed. . .

So the plan might slow the steady creep up in whaling. But it wouldn't halt, or even curtail, the current hunt.

Tokyo argues that its whaling program helps in the understanding of whale stocks as well as the health of the fragile Antarctic environment.

Yet it is only recently that we have truly turned from a whaling civilization to a whale-watching one.

The Sea Shepherd group has emerged as one of the most aggressive anti-whaling organizations.

It could turn over the early whaling boats with one lash of its powerful tail .

Japan considers whaling to be a cultural tradition which it says it only undertakes for scientific research.

One of seven grenades thrown at the anti-whaling vessel is thought to have exploded on deck.

Letters sent from the North Pole or remote whaling stations are particularly in vogue at the moment .

Japan, however, argued against the ban, saying whaling was a long tradition in the country and whale meat a key part of the Japanese diet.

The Oshika peninsula, devastated by the tsunami, welcomes visitors by boasting of its two main industries, whaling and nuclear power.

A whaling executive has said Iceland would likely have to stop whaling in its bid to join the European Union.

At its peak, whaling employed 70, 000 people and was the United States' fifth-largest industry.

"This is a crass act of violence by the Japanese whaling fleet backed up by the Japanese government, " he said.

This gives Chinese people a bad image, just like the Japanese and whaling.

The demonstrators are calling for Japan to stop using scientific research as a cover for commercial whaling in the world's southern oceans.

The company behind Iceland's fin whaling industry is planning a huge export of whalemeat to Japan.

It would reverse the emerging global consensus for whale conservation and inexplicably legitimize commercial whaling.

"We are going to use, if appropriate, military resources to monitor the activities of the whaling vessels, " said McClelland.

South Atlantic sanctuary, barred to all whaling, would be rigorously enforced.

Japan has long resisted pressure to stop scientific whaling, insisting whaling is a cherished cultural tradition.

A relic from the 19th century, a beached ship anchor lies near the ruins of a whaling station on New Island in the Falkland Islands.

Japan's whaling fleet is sailing towards Antarctica on a mission to hunt and kill over 900 whales, including up to 50 humpbacks .

Now that the two Sea Shepherd members have been released, the controversial whaling expedition will resume.

The Great Whale Trail website will also track the Japanese whaling fleet as it heads south.

And then comes whaling and dolphin-slaying, where the cultural gap with much of the Western world appears at its widest.

"This celebration is about sharing our subsistence resources, " says Harry Brower, chairman of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

Australia's opposition party is warning the new government not to use the military to track Japanese whaling activities in the Antarctic.

Usually I sign onto a merchant ship. But this time I wanted to try something new. I planned to join a whaling ship's crew.

The Japanese had offered earlier to send the men back to their ship, if the protesters would stop harassing the whaling fleet.

Reported that anti-whaling ship the new advanced will most likely set sail again, to stop Japanese whaling vessels bloody route.

Australia has protested to Japan after a vessel from its whaling fleet entered Australia's exclusive economic zone in the Southern Ocean.

Thereal reason that Japan is so hell-bent on continuing its whaling isbecause it fears that a ban would be the thin end of the wedge.

The dangers and the excitement of those whaling days are written in the Herman Melville's story of the white whale, Moby Dick.

It has guided whaling ships, fishing boats, steamships, submarines, and sailboats for many years and continues to do so today.

The Ady Gil had been harassing Japan's whaling fleet as part of Sea Shepherd's campaign to prevent whaling in Antarctic waters.

Caption : WHALING: At left, a whale's carcass was tied to a ship near a processing plant in Hvalfjordur, Iceland, Friday.

On the whaling grounds the Japanese fleet encounters the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Norwegian whalers pay huge insurance premiums as a result of their campaign, but it hasn't had much impact on whaling.

Whaling was in fact a major industry, especially in New England: It supplied oil as an energy source, especially for lamps.

Japan has suspended its annual Antarctic whale hunt, handing a victory to anti-whaling activists who have been harassing its fleet.

Whether the results from scientific whaling are useful for stock management has also been questioned.

The researchers estimate that 100 years of whaling removed 23 million tons of carbon from marine ecosystems.

Whaling went into dramatic decline, opening approximately 1900.

Whaling, throughout the book, is a grand metaphor for the pursuit of knowledge.

In practice, opponents of whaling have dragged out talks on such a system in order to delay a resumption indefinitely.

In addition, this year's whaling season 4 has just begun to capture the end of the two whales found no radioactive material.

Last month, another Japanese whaling ship collided with a high-tech trimaran owned by Sea Shepherd.

The organization says bad weather is keeping protesters from continuing their actions to disrupt the whaling near Antarctica .

Mr. Rudd's visit to Japan will be dominated by talks on trade and is also likely to feature the sensitive issue of whaling.

As a result, many species of whale have been driven to near-extinction in the past two-and-a-half centuries of intensive whaling.

A longtime opponent of whaling, Senator Campbell says no Japanese whaling vessel can come in to an Australian port.

Japanese whaling fleets depart for annual whaling hunts in the Southern Ocean in mid-November citing scientific research purposes.

Earlier this year Canberra sent a Customs ship to monitor the whaling fleet to gather evidence for possible international court action.

Douglas MacArthur launched Japan's modern whaling because he wanted protein for a hungry land after the second world war.

And Tasmanian scientists reveal the devastating effects of whaling on the livelihood of the whole species.

Environment Minister Peter Garrettpledged, before this election, to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean.

An analysis by the fund concluded whaling will never be economically feasible without subsidies.

The wreck of the catcher boat Petrel lies stranded at the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken.

Australia and other anti-whaling nations regularly accuse Tokyo of using research as a pretext for commercial hunting.

Conservationists would rail against any resumption of commercial whaling. So would Australia.

vessels engaged in fishing, whaling or similar pursuits, or in operations directly connected therewith.

He's never been better. -What did you do, take him whaling?

The findings were presented at the International Whaling Commission's( IWC) annual meeting .

This would allow for the return of the commercial whaling that Ronald Reagan led the charge to ban.

But advocates of whaling present themselves as protectors of traditional culture, diets and the rights of indigenous people.

In addition, a new whale sanctuary would be established in the south Atlantic, although no whaling actually occurs there now.

Japan has rejected demands from overseas that it abandon whaling as hypocritical.

The Australian Government has also issued a statement criticizing Japan's research whaling to continue the policy.

Despite large population drops due to whaling, sperm whales are still fairly numerous.

read the Bible as literature is like reading Moby Dick as a whaling manual or the Gettysburg Address for its punctuation.

Prime Minister John Howard said while "I totally disagree" with Japanese whaling, he opposed bringing in the military.

She sailed to Canada to stop seal culls and harassed the whaling fleets of Russia and Japan.

In theory, whaling will resume as soon as the IWC can agree on a monitoring system to ensure that its members keep to the quotas set.

Conservationists would rail against any resumption of commercial whaling.

The longest blue whale ever recorded was a 108-foot adult female caught during whaling efforts in Antarctica!

An activist was given a two-year suspended jail term by a Japanese court in July for boarding a whaling ship.

In those ecosystems heavily impacted by whaling, the populations of smaller species increased.

With this new understanding of mass strandings, scientists hypothesize that whaling may cause similar confusion -- and harm.

the accommodation of persons engaged in usual sea-going routine in vessels engaged in whaling or in similar pursuits.

by-catch in fisheries, or large-scale commercial exploitation (i. e. whaling). These threats, coupled.

whaling may put the whales out of existence.

The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986, but allows Japan a limited catch each year for scientific purposes.

Japanese officials counter that the 1946 convention never anticipated a moratorium on all commercial whaling.

Melville incorporated in "Moby Dick" an exhaustive encyclopaedia of whaling lore.

But such whaling, paired with high seas expeditions, brought many whales to the brink of extinction.

Yet every Antarctic summer, Japan sends a whaling fleet south to catch hundreds of whales for "research" .

Whales Whaling, the hunting and killing of whales for oil and other byproducts, was practiced as an organized industry as early as 875 AD.

a ship engaged in fishing or in operations directly connected therewith or in whaling or in similar pursuits.

Around 1850 , one of the biggest US industries was whaling .

In response, Japan's pro-whaling position appears only to have hardened.

The Australian government also has a ship shadowing Japan's whaling fleet, and air patrols are watching the hunt.

In more recent decades, much whaling has been stopped, except for a few holdout nations, such as Japan and Norway.

"The IWC needs to recover control over whaling activities, " says Cristian Maquieira, chairman of the IWC.

IN 1986, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling to allow stocks to replenish.

The Kalu'ak(Both) - The tuskarr are a tough but peaceful people who derive their livelihood from fishing and whaling.

The modern Icelandic whaling industry was entirely for meat and almost entirely for export.

Every northern winter, Japan faces barbs for sending a whaling fleet into Antarctic waters.

With whaling, politics and cash are more important than science.

The bid for its creation has been defeated at the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama.

We do subsistence whaling here so these bears have some remains to feed from, otherwise they would be starving now.

The International Whaling Commission holds its annual meeting next week.

The world's whaling industry's most prosperous period of time, then a whale of a depleted Wild Things.

New Zealand has condemned Japan's decision to resume whaling in Antarctic waters later this year.

Australia and New Zealand have condemned Japan's decision to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean.

An election is due later this year, galvanising Mr Rudd's efforts to make good some of those promises, such as ending whaling.

Switzerland is a member of the IWC, a country not known for its whaling history.

"This supports the idea that the expansion was connected to whaling, " she told BBC News.

The Australian government hopes public pressure will be more effective in its anti-whaling fight.

With industrial-scale whaling, cultural claims ring hollow.

Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him.

On the otherhand, even inthepro-whaling countries, whaling is an insignificant and dying industry.

As for whaling around Japan, vestigial echoes reverberate.

The sign reads, "We denounce Japan which takes the lead in commercial whaling" .

The world's last surviving wooden whaling vessel, the Charles W. Morgan, is pictured on a railway at Fairhaven, Mass. , in 1916.

On arriving at South Georgia they had to travel another 22 miles over mountains to the whaling station.

In 1982, it adopted a moratorium on whaling, to allow the collapsing populations of various species to recover.

After the second wave of attacks Sea Shepherd was warned that if they threw more acid then the whaling ship would retaliate.

For me, whaling is not just culture or tradition.

Every year we come down stronger and every year the whaling fleet comes down weaker.

It is hard to track the blue whale , which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling.

After escaping from whaling boats 150 years ago, it quickly evolved to triple in size, and switched from herbivory to eating flesh.

Populations of large baleen whales now store only 15 percent of the carbon they had before whaling.

Whatof Australia's repeated but unheeded warnings to Japan that if itdoesn't stop whaling we would instigate international court action?

But there's an effort to hold back the rising tide of whaling.

The 1920s saw the introduction of factory whaling ships that could catch and process whales on the high seas without needing shore stations.

Its fishery agencies haveadmitted their fear that if they give up on whaling, protesters willturn their focus to other types of fishing.

We are strenuously opposed to whaling and strenuously opposed to violence at sea.

Public sentiment on whaling, for and against, is anaemic.

In another series, activists go up against whaling ships.

The lookout on a whaling ship has sighted a spouting whale.

Japan's agriculture minister announced 4 Michihiko Kano, the Japanese government will send a ship to protect whaling fleet.

The boxer is whaling away at his opponent with both fists.

Countries agreed to stop commercial whaling in 1986, but Japan says their killing of whales is legal because it's for scientific research.

The whaling season typically runs until mid-March.

Worst of all, activists see the deal as effectively destroying the 24-year-old international moratorium on commercial whaling.

a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea.

The "Whaling City" still relies on sea creatures.

In fact, the IWC's own scientists have, in effect, endorsed a return to whaling.

There is no industry on earth as horrifically violent as whaling.

the cull is permissible, Japan says, because it amounts to "scientific" rather than commercial whaling.

Gleen Cordinier is curator of the Whaling Museum here in Mystic, Connecticut .

Activists chant slogans at a protest against Japan's whaling in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul June 15, 2006.

Could Lifting the Whaling Ban Save the Whales?

But there is more than just fish politics and food culture at stake for Japan when it comes to whaling.

It is the whaling stations that are now extinct.

In addition, they lost access to essential raw materials derived from whaling for their tools and architecture.

Add your name to our petition and tell governments it's time to refocus on whales not whaling.

They made their fortune by whaling.

There is also talk of tourist boycotts of countries that dare to vote in favour of whaling.

Go out and campaign against urban sprawl, Hummers, coal power plants, and whaling -- but leave people alone.

The pro-whaling screed was approved by a much thinner margin: 33 votes to 32.

Commercial whaling was banned worldwide 22 years ago.

My father let me sign on with the two-masted whaling schooner Pearl Nelson.

Could The Whaling Ban Be Lifted?

Critics say it is commercial whaling in all but name.

Those countries have killed more than 30, 000 whales since a 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling.

doing the dangerous job of whaling in the 19th century.

This is Japan's whaling activities in the survey the second time this season the survey was interference.

A century of whaling equates to burning more than 70 million acres of temperate forest or 28, 000 SUVs driving for 100 years, he says.

Last year, Australia filed a complaint against Japan at the world court in The Hague to stop Southern Ocean scientific whaling.

The whaling port of Ayukawa, for example, had no defence when the wave wiped out the industry.

Despite this, Norway continues to defy the whaling ban: 2010's kill quota is the highest in 25 years.

Not at first, Commercial whaling pinnacle in the mid-1960s, with extra than 60, 000 whales killed each annual.

EMOTION, according to the Japanese government, should play no part in decisions about commercial whaling.

In theory, a global moratorium, proclaimed by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), has been in force since 1986.

They are whaling at sea.

It boiled over last year when a whaling vessel and Sea Shepherd collided in January 2010, destroying the activist group's boat.

Greenpeace is using an animated film in Japan , which also feature school children, to get its anti whaling message across .

In Japan and Norway, the whaling business by selling whale meat big fortunes, where whale meat per kilogram can be sold at 350 U.

Whaling is not a job for many people any more.

With veiled threats, whaling groups urge cinemas in Japan not to show "The Cove" .

Whaling nations and their allies face off against countries like the U. S. and Australia that are pushing to reduce illegal whaling;

And we urge all countries, especially our friends in Japan, to bring their whaling programs to an end.

What's more, some even in water cannons during a fleet to interfere with Japanese whaling driven the members of the society.

Arctic whaling culture, ancient and modern, hinges around the bowhead

Protocol to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling;

International Whaling Commission member countries to decide on lifting 25-year ban in deal that would see fewer whales killed

International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling

Press Release: Controversial whaling proposal fails at global meeting

Greenpeace and WWF give conditional support to commercial whaling plan

Chapter 56 Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes

Not all whale species are protected under the 1986 commercial whaling ban;

Chapter 82 The Honor and Glory of Whaling