Because the whale was a huge source of meat and oil.
nantucket
Nantucket
it started when some people realised that whale bluber could be used for lip sticks and oils
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.
Whaling isn't good at all
Commercial Whaling has been banned since 1986 by the International Whaling commission. However, scientific whaling is allowed to strict quotas.
Whaling happens in oceans, not on continents.
Protesting and intervening with whaling ships
Whaling stopped in Australia is 1979
If you mean whales, they die painfully.
Well scientific whaling as basically when you do scientific research on whales. This is actually one of Japans excuse for whaling but of course their lying they use it for food and oil and all that (STOP WHALING!)
Whaling goes back more then 5,000 years.