Sentence examples for whalers from inspiring English sources
Japan's claim to commercial whaling as a cultural expression is surely a shaky one, since it only began large-scale whaling in the 20th century – but it was taught to them by European whalers.
As well as whalers' harpoons, whales must navigate the dangers of ship strikes, entanglements in shipping nets and other ocean apparatus, disorientating man-made ocean noises, habitat destruction, resource exploitation, climate change and pollution.
Far below us, heading for its honorary home port in Hobart after another season spent in the Southern Ocean combating the Japanese whalers, was the Bob Barker, Sea Shepherd's flagship, "back from saving our whales", said Fin, our young pilot.
Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd who have been locked in conflict with Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, said: "Despite the moratorium on commercial whaling, Japan has continued to claim the lives of thousands of the gentle giants of the sea in a place that should be their safe haven.
The court said there was no research justification for the high kill targets set for Japan's whalers.
Whalers killed 16 male and 14 female mammals, with an average length of about six metres (20ft), the agency said.
Even depraved Japan claims to have no desire to hunt the great whales to extinction.Some anti-whalers appear to be in deep denial about these facts.
At the IWC's meeting this year, for instance, Britain's fisheries minister, Elliot Morley, claimed that there were "no reliable stock estimates to suggest an abundant whale species", thus contradicting the IWC's own scientists, who have endorsed the pro-whalers' estimates for the minke population.
To be against the utilisation of an abundant stock is not environmentalism .The anti-whalers supplement their environmental objections with policies based on notions of animal welfare or animal rights.
One argument that excites the anti-whalers is that whales are endangered, and that whaling therefore threatens their extinction.
Japan would be allowed to hunt 120 minke whales in its coastal waters as a sop to local sentiment in four ports.Green activists and anti-whaling countries are calling the deal a victory for whaling nations, but pro-whalers certainly do not see things that way.
