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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
GreenpeaceUSA's endorsed kill of 5000 dolphins per year amounts to more cetacean kills than all whales killed by the world's whalers. What's wrong with this picture? And while we're on ... them a fraudulent "dolphin safe" label that in fact means that dolphins are harassed, netted, and even killed (but not reported); and Has ignored the three largest tuna companies in the world -- Starkist, BumbleBee ...
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SoundNet - If Adopted, RMS Would Lead Whaling Back to the Dark, Pre-Moratorium Days
History Repeating Itself? Whales have been slaughtered for commercial gain in unregulated hunts ... treaties to manage hunting of species far less vulnerable to cheating and over-exploitation than whales. In short, the draft RMS would create the same sort of chaotic conditions that led ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - Research - Methods
Drifting and beached whale carcasses within the Monterey Bay and Eastern pacific often involve evidence of shark bites. Whales killed and subsequently abandoned by sated orcas (O. orca) are often foraged upon by blue sharks (P. glauca) and white sharks and under some circumstances large benthic sharks. Post mortem scavenging occurs along the coast and far ...
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SoundNet - Whaling - A Bloody Business
Total Whales Killed 1910 - 1969 350255 807032 157399 209720 497068 61524 2082998 It was in the light ... research" is still allowed. It is under this particular get out clause that Japan kills whales. Oddly enough though, their 'scientific research' involves selling the carcasses to restaurants for food. So ...
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Ocean Alliance - FAQ - Whales
In spite of overwhelming international opposition, Japan has ... and remains an unidentified species. << TOP How can I identify cetaceans in the wild? Identifying whales, dolphins and porpoises in the wild can be a challenge, as some species look alike, ...
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Right Whales and Fishing Gear
Right whales are also known to be curious about objects but when startled will attempt to flee. ... to standby until disentanglement teams arrive. Even then, weather, lack of daylight, complicated entanglements and uncooperative whales may not allow the whale to be disentangled on the first try. Satellite tracking reduces ...
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Whales - History
Watching Whaling and Whalers in South Australia History From hunting... Over 26,000 Southern Right Whales were killed in Australian and New Zealand waters. 1791 First whale (Sperm Whale) taken in Australian ... occupants were hardly able to live and survived on what they could catch. Southern Right Whales were considered the "right" whale to hunt because they float when dead, yielded many barrels of ...
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Whales for Foxes from Artic Circle
Canadian periodical, ARCTIC CIRCLE, in its summer issue of 1992 Whales for Foxes from Artic Circle Thanks to subsistence hunting quotas for aboriginal people, the operators of ... whales, scattered among bones and long strips of rotting flesh. The migrating grey whales are killed only a few miles from the shore, from an old whaling steamer. Harpoon lying on the beach ...
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General Information About Pilot Whales
Whaling was discontinued in 1972 because of decimated local stocks and poor markets for the meat, which was typically sold to fur farms. Female pilot whales mature at 6 ... by echolocation. Vocalizations include a wide variety of whistles and clicks. Occasionally, groups of pilot whales slowly swim ashore and beach them- selves. Such mass standings are a natural phenomenon and have ...
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Nature group says humpback whales recovering, but other large sea animals suffering - Los Angeles Times
Archives Reprint Requests Work for Us Home Delivery Customer Support Subscribe Nature group says humpback whales recovering, but other large sea animals suffering By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER, Associated Press Writer 4: ... deemed it a particularly good species to hunt, because it floats after being killed. "Humpbacks and southern right whales are making a comeback in much of their range mainly because they ...
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