“It’s also important to inherit traditional food cultures in Japan.” Japan caught a total of 294 minke whales, Bryde’s whales and sei whales last year, said the Fisheries Agency, which ...

However, the last minke whaling company has closed and now ... this key segment of Iceland’s tourism industry is a major opponent of whale hunting. Marine biologist Giulia Bellon said it does ...

The Fisheries Agency permits the hunting of three large whale species: minke, Bryde’s and sei whales. But minke whales have become hard to find, and the catches last year were half the maximum ...

This year, researchers discovered new animal behaviors, uncovered surprising hunting techniques and ... encountered a 15-foot minke whale stranded on a sandbar in the Shubenacadie River.

The fleet caught 333 minke whales as planned without interference ... to the International Whaling Commission’s moratorium on hunting but exploits a loophole that allows whales to be killed ...

Wildlife watchers were treated to sights of the once-endangered whales off the Sussex coast, from Eastbourne to Hastings.

President-elect Donald Trump’s musings about America controlling Greenland have put this Arctic territory under the spotlight at a time when it’s opening up to tourism. This is what visitors can ...

With the Biden administration’s time in office coming to an end, regulators at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The New England Aquarium called the decision a “serious setback for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.

Here, they spend brutally cold winters hunting seals on ice under the northern ... humpback whales join the likes of fin and minke whales feasting on plankton. Whale-watching is excellent all ...