Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...
Since the old days, some species of whales have almost fully recovered. Some are still imperiled and some species will soon ...
In July, the anti-whaling activist Captain Paul Watson was arrested and jailed in Nuuk, Greenland and faced extradition to ...
the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony. He said the construction of the Kangei Maru means that offshore, mothership type whaling will not be discontinued.
Singer, gaeilgeoir and primary school teacher, Eamonn Ó Ceallaigh, is collaborating with Cork’s Meitheal Mara, the community ...
Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we tend to think of sailing as a summertime thing, maybe it would be ...
The Canadian-American citizen is a former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose high seas confrontations with whaling vessels have drawn support from celebrities and featured in the ...
Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...
Operation was able to continue because of the station's technical efficiency and its use as a forward base for Salvesens' factory ships. Stromness whaling station was leased in 1931 and used for ...
With the Biden administration’s time in office coming to an end, regulators at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
Maui County Council members voted unanimously Friday on a bill that could preserve parts of a historic structure ravaged by ...