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38 examples of Whaling in a sentence

It could have survived 150 years of whaling.
The black line in the crow's nest signifies this is a shark vessel, rather than a whaling vessel.
Like them, many species of whales saw their numbers drastically reduced by 200 years of whaling, where they were hunted and killed for their whale meat, oil and whale bone.
It was instrumental in stopping commercial whaling, and was built on the idea that if we couldn't save whales, what could we save?
So in the early '80s, there was a ban on commercial whaling that came into force as a result of this campaign.
So over the 200 years of whaling, when we were busy killing and removing these carcasses from the oceans, we likely altered the rate and geographic distribution of these whale falls that would descend into deep oceans, and as a result, probably led to a number of extinctions of species that were most specialized and dependent on these carcasses for their survival.
The 200 years of whaling was clearly detrimental and caused a reduction in the populations of whales between 60 to 90 percent.
Clearly, the Save the Whales movement was instrumental in preventing commercial whaling from going on, but we need to revise this.
This is the whaling camp here, we're about six miles from shore, camping on five and a half feet of thick, frozen pack ice.
So I went up there, and I lived with these guys out in their whaling camp here, and photographed the entire experience, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport in New York, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven and a half days later.
Around 1850, one of the biggest U.S. industries was whaling.
Well, technically, it's about Greenpeace, an environmental organization that wanted to stop the Japanese government's whaling campaign.
The Japanese government called off their whaling expedition.
When Mr. Barrymore loses his leg in a whaling accident, Bennett rejects him.
Don't get the impression from other reviewers that this film stinks cos it's ambivalent about the Japanese whaling industry (which, morally, is no worse than the US meat trade or the Scottish haggis cull), it stinks cos it's pretentious tosh, the sort of up-its-own-behind guff that gets modern art a bad name.
Greenpeace began the protests against Australian whaling, and the government appointed Sydney Frost, a retired judge, to head an inquiry into the practice.
I did not argue that whaling should stop because whales are endangered.
Thus, whaling is unethical.
Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s conservative government accepted his recommendation that whaling be stopped, and Australia soon became an anti-whaling nation.
While Japan has suspended its plan to kill humpback whales, its Japanese whaling fleet will still kill about 1,000 other whales, mostly smaller minke whales.
Japan justifies its whaling as “research,” because the International Whaling Commission’s rules allow member nations to kill whales for such purposes.
But the research seems to be aimed at building a scientific case for a resumption of commercial whaling; so, if whaling is unethical, then the research itself is both unnecessary and unethical.
Japan says that it wants the discussion of whaling to be carried out calmly, on the basis of scientific evidence, without “emotion.”
The Australian government strongly opposes whaling, yet it permits the killing of millions of kangaroos each year – a slaughter that involves a great deal of animal suffering.
Whaling should stop because it brings needless suffering to social, intelligent animals capable of enjoying their own lives.
Although the International Whaling Commission introduced a ban on commercial whaling, there is no consensus among member countries as to whether the moratorium extends to small cetaceans such as dolphins.
In any case, the ban on commercial whaling did not stop the Japanese whaling fleet from killing whales.
Commercial whaling continued under the guise of science.
But while the verdict may have done some damage to Japan’s reputation, it did little for the whales, because the Japanese government has now developed a new, supposedly more scientific Antarctic whaling program.
This year, Japan will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling.