Whaling in Norway involves hunting of minke whales for use as animal and human food in Norway and for export to Japan. Whale hunting has been a part of...

Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the...

The High North Alliance (Norwegian: Høge Nord Alliansen) is an umbrella organisation of several fishing, whaling and Nordic municipal councils. The organisation...

(Japan) Whaling in Australia Whaling in Iceland Whaling in Japan Whaling in Norway "IWC Member countries and commissioners". International Whaling Commission...

Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. However, Japanese...

whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling...

Atlantic. The French explorer Samuel de Champlain, when writing about Basque whaling in Terranova (i.e. Newfoundland), described them as "the cleverest men at...

Whaling in Iceland began with spear-drift hunting as early as the 12th century, and continued in a vestigial form until the late 19th century, when other...

The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international environmental agreement aimed at the "proper conservation of whale stocks...

loss, and changes in CO2 emissions. The index notes over-exploitation of fisheries, but not Norway's whaling or oil exports. Norway had a 2019 Forest...

others. In 1948, the company purchased an American naval base at Hvalfjörður (Whale Fjord) and converted it into a whaling station. Norwegian crews were...

explosive discharge to assist in whaling. In Norway, Japan, and Iceland, the use of these harpoons is commonplace. Norway created and utilises the most...

A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales. The term whaler is mostly historic...

Whaling in the Faroe Islands, or grindadráp (from the Faroese terms grindhvalur, meaning pilot whale, and dráp, meaning killing), is a type of drive hunting...

prosperous whaling industry, which made Sandefjord the richest city in Norway. Today, it has built up the third-largest merchant fleet in Norway. Sandefjord...

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The Coastal Party (Norwegian: Kystpartiet) is a regionalist, agrarian political party in Norway. The party has district, fishing and coastal issues among...

village was a Norwegian whaling station. The village also hosted the Dalatangi light. It is often referred as the smallest village in the country, and...

islands as well as others in the Norwegian sea. The largest damage to the Norwegian Sea was caused by extensive fishing, whaling, and pollution. Other contamination...

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Whaling in Australian waters began in 1791 when five of the 11 ships in the Third Fleet landed their passengers and freight at Sydney Cove and then left...

base for both whaling and fishing. Norway claimed a 200-nautical-mile (370-kilometre) exclusive economic zone (EEZ) around Svalbard in 1977, with 31,688...

in Norway.: 25  While whalers from Sandefjord established the first whaling station in the Faroe Islands, whalers from Tønsberg initiated whaling in Iceland...

of the population born in Norway to two foreign-born parents. The most common countries of birth of immigrants living in Norway were Poland (109,654),...

Demographic features of the population of Norway, including Jan Mayen, and Svalbard, where the hospital is not equipped for births, and no burials are...

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Chilean waters. Indigenous, Basque, New England, Norwegian and Japanese whaling traditions have been present in Chilean waters. Scavenging of whales may have...

towns and cities in Norway. The Norwegian language word by means a town or city–there is no distinction between the two words as there is in English. Historically...

headquarters for the Norwegian whaling fleet, and Horten used to be Norway's main naval port. The coastal towns of Vestfold now engage in fishing and shipbuilding...