Whaling

Whales were killed with a special kind of spear called a harpoon. They were cut up with tools called flensing knives.

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5 products made out of whales are perfume, oil, whale soup

Commercial Whaling has been banned since 1986 by the International Whaling commission. However, scientific whaling is allowed to strict quotas.

Because whales were becoming endangered and there was moremoney to be made out of tourism around whales then hunting them down.

Tilikum was the whale who killed the trainer. He has killed three people. Two trainers and a homeless man. Tilikum started performing on March 30th, 2010 after his third death.

Whales in Antarctica are usually hunted under the pretext of "scientific research" to understand whales and their diets and thus improve their conservation. However, this type of research is unnecessary and detrimental. Additionally, because the whale meat is sold for consumption after the gut contents have been examined, it seems much more likely that the real reason whales are hunted is to be sold as a "luxury" food.

1500bc References to the consumption of whale meat date back to Kojiki, the oldest surviving book in Japan, written in the eighth century.

A dangerous South American headland around which whaling ships of the 1880s dreaded sailing was Cape Horn.

A dangerous South American headland around which whaling ships of the 1880s dreaded sailing was Cape Horn.

Modern whaling in South Georgia began in 1904, the South Shetland Islands in 1906, in the South Orkneys in 1912, and in the Ross Sea in 1923.

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whales,whales stop cutting of thier tails.....

whaling should be banned because they are Beautiful creatures that are becoming extinct because of us humans be on the other hand they are used for a lot of things. Very few whales of every kind are left. We should protect them.

Not hurt them.

teeth- piano keys,buttons,jewelry

sinews- used for tennis raquets

liver-oil

oil-sperm whale oil taken from bone and skin used for high grade alcohol,shoe cream, lipstick,ointment,crayons, candles, fertilizer, soap, and animal feed

skin- belts, shoes, bags

baleen- umbrellas, horse whips, shoehorn

We can see whales do have a practical use when it comes to using their remnants to create objects to aid us.

Anti-whaling campaigners say that whales are amongst the most intelligent of mammals and it is therefore morally wrong to kill them for food. Most of the research on mammal intelligence has been carried out on Bottle nose dolphins and while they scored highly in some research, it is nearly impossible to duplicate these tests for whales, probably due to the fact their numbers are so small.

With that said, the campaigners must have little evidence as to a whale's intelligence.

I will try to be unbiased in my answer, whaling should be banned because it is causing whale to become endangered and could lead to their extinction, this would be bad because whales fill a niche in the ocean that if left open by their extinction, could have drastic and harmful effects on the ocean's ecosystem

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The Pequod

In the ocean

Whaling is not a sport and should not be taken as one. It is very cruel and inhumane.

The world may never know.........

They shot the defensless animal full of harpoons and then they kill it.

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Actually the shooting the animals typically kills them in one shot. Whales are not completely defenseless either, they can do considerable damage to medium sized boats by surfacing and landing on the vessel. It is no more cruel than how cows are slaughtered. Usually it's a near instantaneous kill, hardly ever requiring more than a single blow.

The middle colonies

When Whaling Captain's wives are at sea, they do what every wife does when she accompanies her husband on a journey.

They tell him what to do, not to get dirty, not to look at other sailor´s wives, which course to steer and which whale to fire their harpoons at.

Naturally they also complain about the rolling of the ship, the bad food, the rats, the smell of the rotting whales, the sea, the wind, the seagulls making too much noise at 0300 and so on.

This is why captains usually try to leave their wives at home when going whaling. There they can re-arrange the house, get a boyfriend, spend the money their husbands brought home from the last journey, meet other captain´s wifes, get drunk in the evening and do crochet and embroidery.

Most countries have banned it thanks to an international treaty. However, Japan still whales on a scale large enough that there are even a few sushi restaurants in the USA that serve whale meat. The Japanese say that the whaling is only for scientific research, but if that is the case, why is whale meat being served in restaurants? Bob Barker, the retired host of "The Price is Right," funds a ship called the "Sea Shepherd" that travels to Antarctica and fights against Japanese whalers. There is a reality show on Animal Planet about it, called "Whale Wars."

1500 B.C.

Whaling has been going on for centuries. They are mostly killed for food, their blubber, and their insides which are used for most cosmetic products.