With Japanese whaling it is an annual event, though it is not continuos- since they stop hunting during the breeding season. Japanese whalers are also trying to farm whales. Yet, weather it'll work/continue is still under debate since many people think it'll follow the same path as the Chinese panda breeding scheme.
Whaling occurs mainly in
Canada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Island of Bequia, Saint Lucia, Japan, Iceland, Norway, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Indonesia, Russia and The United States of America (USA).
There are many whales dying every year but organisations like Sea Shepherd and WAW are working against the whalers and saving thousands of whales every year.
Here are some stats to do with whales:NameDistributionPopulationMinke whalesSouthern Hemisphere761,000North West Pacific and Okhotsk Sea25,000North Atlantic (excluding Canadian East Coast)149,000Bowhead whalesBering-Chukchi- Beaufort Seas stock8,000Gray whalesEastern North Pacific26,300Humpback whalesWestern North Atlantic11,570Blue whalesSouthern Hemisphere400 - 1,400Fin whalesNorth Atlantic47,300
Japan
Most of the civilized word have banned whaling and they find it very difficult to understand how those countries that continue to whale justify what they do.
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almost 40% of the world whaling develops in japan. is a shame
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It is leading to the probable extinction of one of the most intelligent and least understood lifeforms in the ocean.
Nantucket is the New England city that became the greatest whaling seaport in the world.
Whaling itself isn't banned. However, commercial whaling was banned in 1986. Whaling is still aloud today if it is for 'scientific research'. Eventhough most countries uses it as a loop hole to kill whales for commercial purposes.
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Most of the world's population growth occurs in the developing world.
Maria Ujhazy has written: 'Herman Melville's world of whaling' -- subject(s): Whaling in literature