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  • *The International Whaling Commission prohibits commercial whaling south of 40 degrees south (south of 60 degrees south between 50 degrees and ...
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  • such success that every major Atlantic whaling expedition would stop in ... In 1979, Portugal outlawed whaling, even though the annual Azorean ...
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  • and shipbuilding. After working on another whaling ship and in the California ... the rich fishing waters off Japan. After whaling in the South Seas, Franklin ...
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  • ===Whaling=== [[Image:Killed pilot wales in hvalba, faroe islands.JPG ... Whaling in the Faeroe Islands has been practiced since at least the ...
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  • left his native Massachusetts and joined a whaling expedition to the South ... story of Captain Ahab, commander of the whaling ship the Pequod, and his ...
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  • In the nineteenth century European and U.S. whaling ships regularly prowled the waters off Southampton Island in the search for bowhead whales ...
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  • Frances and the Queen Anne, with fishing and whaling gear. ... colony that would prosper through fishing, whaling, trapping, and harvesting ...
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  • huddle of wooden huts and tents. The whaling industry was established, ships were visiting Sydney to trade, and convicts whose sentences had ...
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  • Owing to extensive whaling, sperm whale size has decreased dramatically ... meters (85 feet) long attacked a Nantucket whaling ship Essex. Only 8 out of ...
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  • Hudson the "grandfather of the English whaling industry." [http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/hudson_01.htm Henry Hudson's First ...
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  • and gradually established farming and whaling industries. Although some families decided to return to Pitcairn in 1858 and 1863, the island ...
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  • because the removal of whales by the intensive whaling of the twentieth century left a surplus of krill. Currently, most species of fur seals ...
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  • and Asia in the nineteenth century. The arrival of whaling ships and missionaries accelerated settlement of the port city. Kamehameha III moved his capital ...
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  • Inuit were forced to abandon hunting and whaling sites in the high Arctic ... the Labrador coast and had established whaling stations on land, such as ...
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  • to sea otter hunting, salmon fishing, and whaling. The Russian clergy introduced the Orthodox faith, which remains a strong force in many Native ...
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  • marine mammals (seals and whales, although "whaling" is the term usually used instead of fishing). Among common mollusks that are the target ...
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  • * Regular morning class at approximately 6:30 A.M.Frank Whaling, Encyclopedia ... *Whaling, Frank. Understanding the Brahma Kumaris. Dunedin Press ltd ...
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  • subsistence hunting and fishing, including whaling. The capture of a whale ... influenza brought by American and European whaling crews, most of these moved ...
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  • of the great era of New England whaling industry in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1867, the United States government purchased from Russia all ...
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  • Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: Climate Change Kyoto Protocol ==Notes== ==References== ...
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