Sentence examples for whaling activity from inspiring English sources

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.

The Coalition has been accused of breaking an election promise by announcing it will send an aircraft, rather than a ship, to monitor Japanese whaling activity in the Southern Ocean.

Cristián Maquieira, the whaling commission's chairman, and Anthony Liverpool, the vice chairman, have argued that the 10-year compromise plan would bring all whaling activity under the full control of the organization, allowing it to better address threats to whale species.

"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.

With the cessation on whaling of SH humpback whales in 1963 (and despite the continuation of illegal Soviet whaling activities into the early 1970's), certain depleted populations are now undergoing significant recoveries [89], [90], [92], [93], [94], [95].

Japan has argued that minke whales and a number of other species are plentiful and that its whaling activities are sustainable.

"With this ruling, Japan must clearly cease its whaling activities in the Antarctic.