Lots of different types of whales are hunted, including:
Right Whale: It was considered the perfect whale to hunt because it had lots of blubber for oil lamps - hence the name 'right' whale.
Blue Whale: Considered too dangerous to hunt mostly, but some of the more risk-taking hunters went after this whale because, being bigger, it provided more blubber, meat and bone.
These are the whales that have been hunted. If you are looking for present-day targets:
Common Minke Whale: Too small to be considered dangerous, and the numbers are too big for people to notice any missing.
Long-Finned Pilot Whale: Hunted mostly for the meat, and also small.
Japanese people go whaling
Over 400 different whales are hunted each year due to whaling.
over 400 whales are hunted every year from whaling
It varies by the decade you are on about. Especially when it comes to whaling For whaling alone about 20,000 whales are hunted each decade. If you include boat accidents involving whales and whales dying in captivity then that number increases to around around 200,000 in a decade.
By poaching, or by whaling, if that's what people call for "poaching whales".
Yes, humans hunt too many blue whales. Japan and Norway in particular need to stop whaling
for the oil and meat.
Since whales are killed in whaling, I'd Think it'd be pretty obvious that whales are affected by whaling.
It should be fishermen. Whaling is not the fishery only by Japan. America hunted a great number of whales and that's partly what they wanted Japan to open ports.
When a whale is hunted, its meat is used for food. Occasionally, people will use the whale's blubber for oil.
Humpbacks, Fin whales, Bryde's whales and Gray whales, some of which are endangered species
Hunting & Whaling by humans. Gray Whales have been hunted since the 16th century. Humans have been whaling gray whale species for over 4 decades now. This hunting has significantly reduced the gray whale populations. The north atlantic population of gray whales were totally wiped out due to whaling even before the 19th century. Around 1950, governments worldwide declared the gray whale as an endangered species and banned whaling them
If you mean whales, they die painfully.