Now blue whales are not hunted. They are an endangered species.
The used to be hunted for Whale Oil.
Blue whale hunting was banned in 1966 by the International Whaling Commission. But, by 1970 330,000 blue whales had been caught & killed in the Antarctic, 33,000 in the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, 8,200 in the North Pacific, and 7,000 in the North Atlantic. The largest original population, in the Antarctic, had been reduced to 0.15% its original count.
They do not hunt at any particular time they hunt whenever.
For the bone of the whale
whale hunters(asians)
A blue whale can feed approximately feed 50,000 people
Because they want to make money for the bones and meat.
oil for oil lamps
It depends on the kind of whale.
PEOPLE!
well people hunt for it so they can eat it, or use it as decorationing. but from my opinion people hunt it moree.
The blue what doesn't exactly hunt. It just takes water into its mouth and filters it (by means of filters called baleens).
beluga whale poaching
A blue whale will spin franticly to get the attacker off it, after it is free it will either swim away or ram the attacker against a rock wall or the ocean ground to kill it.