Sentence examples for their whaling from inspiring English sources

Now, they point out, some species of whale are not endangered and a few minke whales in particular whose population is put at over 1m could be caught.These countries also argue that culture and tradition should allow them to maintain their whaling industry and their whale-eating habits.

He's written a natural history of the New Jersey swamps ("The Meadowlands"), an account of the Makah tribe's revival of their whaling tradition ("A Whale Hunt") and a history of rodents in New York City ("Rats").

Many of these societies, despite an interruption in their whaling activities for decades, continued consuming whale products taken from occasional beached or opportunistically taken whales, as well as through trade, or received as gifts from neighbouring whalers.

Japan has long argued that their whaling is scientific and crucial to understanding whale populations worldwide.

They had begun transporting cotton with their whaling ships in the 1860's after petroleum replaced whale oil as the nation's primary fuel and lubricant.

"Clearly the whaling countries want to contain any discussion of their whaling inside the IWC," commented Patrick Ramage, director of the global whale programme with the International Fund for Animal Welfare.

"We have reason to believe from a reliable source that, once in Costa Rica, the Japanese government may have sought extradition of Captain Watson to Japan to answer charges related to obstructing their illegal whaling activities in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary," Hartland said.

In these ways, as well as through their continuing oral traditions, religious beliefs, and visual and performing arts, an unbroken connection with their recent whaling pasts have been retained as a central element of these indigenous whaling societies' cultural identities.

"I think it will increase pressure on those two countries to re-examine their own whaling practices and the various reasons and pretexts given for that whaling activity".

Both Norway and Iceland currently continue with their commercial whaling industries under claims that the decision to set zero catch limits adversely affects respective national interests and thus does not apply.

The leaders of ASRC said they had invested in Shell's venture because of concerns that climate change would make it more difficult to sustain their traditional whaling and fishing based economy.