Norway has hunted whales in its own waters for centuries, but key technological advances, such as the exploding harpoon cannon, developed by its whalers in the 19 th century, enabled the expansion of ...

Despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling, Norwegians like Kristiansen persist in hunting minke whales—though for practical reasons they do so only in Norway’s domestic waters.

I've donated paintings to several whaling museums in the USA, South Georgia, Norway and the Shetland Islands and more of work can be seen on my website. Southern Actor delivering a fin whale to ...

Salvesen's of Leith, as the name suggests, had its origins in Norway (until recently the company ... including Arctic whaling. His son Theodore took the company to the South Atlantic, whaling ...

Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...

Instead, it became a quasi-permanent ban, to the delight of conservationists but the dismay of whaling nations like Japan, Norway and Iceland who argue that whaling is part of their culture and ...

Others, such as the North Atlantic right whale, number in the low hundreds even after decades of protection. The major industrial whaling nations of the early 20 th century included Great Britain, the ...

Whaling nations, such as Japan, Norway and Iceland, however argue the practice is part of their culture and should continue in a sustainable way. Today, whale stocks are carefully monitored ...

Under international pressure, Japan, one of three countries to conduct commercial whaling along with Iceland and Norway, abandoned these hunts. Since 2019 it has only caught whales in its own waters.

Among the opponents were Norway, one of the three countries that still engage in commercial whaling, along with Iceland and Japan. Iceland abstained, while Japan left the IWC in 2019. Petter Meier ...

We are simply requesting they obey the law." Under international pressure, Japan, one of three countries to conduct commercial whaling along with Iceland and Norway, abandoned these hunts. Since 2019 ...