Sentence examples for whaling activities from inspiring English sources

It was thought that whaling activities up to 1965 had eliminated this population.

This calamity allowed for the British, French, and Americans to gain control of the land and enter the Sandalwood trade and whaling activities in the nineteenth century.

Some scientists regard that historical populations off Japan were driven to extinction by whaling activities, mostly from the Kumanonada Sea off Wakayama, in Tosa Bay, and in the Sea of Hyūga.

"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.

Environmentalists have actively resisted Japan's whaling activities.

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.

Beginning in the waters contiguous to the colonial coastline, whaling activity had been extended throughout the Western Ocean as the number of whales along the shore dwindled.

Initially, modern whaling activity focused on large baleen whales, but as these populations were taken, sperm whaling increased.

Australia is locked in an International Court of Justice dispute with Japan over whaling activity.

"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".

In a move hailed by conservation activists, President Obama initiated potential diplomatic sanctions against Iceland this week for its commercial whaling activity.