Connecticut
Fishing, ship building, and the slave trade
fishing, fur trading, lumber and whaling.
whaling
The middle colonies
Connecticut was an important shipbuilding and whaling state.
It was important because they needed food to survive
FIshing and whaling became important industries.
America is against whaling. They almost put whales out of the ocean for good when they did do whaling. They wanted their blubber for oil.
False
Aside from being an immense and incredible animal, the blue whale is endangered as a result of historical whaling and modern whaling, collisions with ships, and changes in the ocean chemistry due to increased amounts of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. It is important to note that most whale populations have not nearly recovered from the effects of historical whaling, especially whaling in the nineteenth century .
Commercial Whaling has been banned since 1986 by the International Whaling commission. However, scientific whaling is allowed to strict quotas.