Sentence examples for shore whaling from inspiring English sources

Seeing profit in the whale harvest, colonists began shore whaling in the 1650s.

Drift whaling led to shore whaling, the pursuit of whales swimming close to shore, an industry that established the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts as the whaling capital of the nation.

Shore whaling involved posting a lookout atop a tall timber pounded into the sand.

What will be added in the future? A. A whaling center will show how pioneer families worked in the shore whaling industry that flourished between the 1690's and the 1830's.

Basque shore whaling continued sporadically into the 19th century.

The claim that whaling and dolphin hunting are "traditions" is very weak, as industrial whaling did not begin in Japan until the beginning of the 20th century (often with opposition from local Japanese fishermen who resented the blood and offal shore whaling stations dumped in fishing ports), with Antarctic trips not starting until the 1930's.

By the early 1700s they'd depleted their near-shore whaling grounds, so they began outfitting ships with dozen-strong crews and venturing farther out into the Atlantic.

The first settlers on Nantucket had planned to raise sheep but eventually began hunting whales, first from the shore and then from whaling boats.

In the early centuries of shore-based whaling before 1712, right whales were virtually the only catchable large whales, for three reasons: They often swam close to shore where they could be spotted by beach lookouts, and hunted from beach-based whaleboats.

Japan's shore-based whaling stations falsified catch records for Bryde's and sperm whales into the 1980s (Kasuya 1999).

His tale begins about 1650, with shore-based whaling on the eastern end of Long Island, and ends with the wreck of the bark Wanderer off New Bedford, Mass., in 1924.