Sperm whaling is the human practice of hunting sperm whales, the largest toothed whale and the deepest-diving marine mammal species, for the oil, meat...

flotsam. Sperm whaling was a major industry in the 19th century, depicted in the novel Moby-Dick. The species is protected by the International Whaling Commission...

international ban on whaling, sperm oil is no longer legally sold. The oil from bottlenose whales was sometimes called "Arctic sperm oil." It was cheaper...

Falsifications in Whaling" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-07. Retrieved 2008-10-16. Whitehead, H. (2003). "Ghosts of Whaling Past". Sperm Whales...

Southeast Asian countries. In 1985, the International Whaling Commission ended sperm whaling. The pygmy sperm whale is covered by the Agreement on the Conservation...

the early years were right and sperm whales. Humpback, bowhead and other whale species would later be taken. Whaling went on to be a major maritime industry...

whales Sperm whaling Dolphin drive hunting "whaling". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. 2001. Retrieved May 16, 2010. Francis, Daniel. "Whaling". The Canadian...

Commercial whaling in the United States dates to the 17th century in New England. The industry peaked in 1846–1852, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent...

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

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...

off the Antarctic. The sperm whale, the southern right whale and humpback whale were the main target species in South Sea whaling. The industry went on...

of dog-fish." Oleochemistry Rendering (animal products) Spermaceti Sperm whaling Ed Butts (October 4, 2019). "The cautionary tale of whale oil". The...

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

maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's...

Nantucket whaler Essex when it set sail for the Pacific Ocean on a sperm whaling expedition in August 1819. In November the next year, a whale rammed...

tryworks. Spermaceti was especially valuable, and as sperm whaling voyages were several years long, the whaling ships were equipped for all eventualities. There...

bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses. It takes...

McClure's, and Success. Ashley had both a knowledge of and interest in sperm whaling due to his upbringing in New Bedford. In 1904 he was commissioned by...

ointments. The whaling industry in the 17th and 18th centuries was developed to find, harvest, and refine the contents of the head of a sperm whale. The crews...

candles, and lubricants – providing the economic basis for the sperm whaling industry. A sperm whale may contain as much as 1,900 L (420 imp gal; 500 US gal)...

Aboriginal whaling or indigenous whaling is the hunting of whales by indigenous peoples recognised by either IWC (International Whaling Commission) or...

The first full whaling season began in 1933, and the first whale killed, a sperm whale, was taken on May 28, 1933. Most of the whaling in the pre-war...

little demand for whale meat, compared to farmed livestock. Commercial whaling, which has faced opposition for decades, continues today in very few countries...

those currently regulated by the International Whaling Commission: the Odontoceti family Physeteridae (sperm whales); and the Mysticeti families Balaenidae...

reports of modern sperm whales attacking whaling vessels by ramming into them, and the organ is disproportionally larger in male modern sperm whales. An alternate...

New Bedford Whaling Museum (October, 2008). "Sperm Whale". New Bedford Whaling Museum. Retrieved January 2, 2017. "Reyna". New Bedford Whaling Museum. Retrieved...

International Whaling Commission: the Odontoceti families Physeteridae (sperm whales), Ziphiidae (beaked whales), and Kogiidae (pygmy and dwarf sperm whales);...

female sperm whale, was taken on 20 November 1978. The final season's catch had 698 sperm whales, 15 short of its quota set by the International Whaling Commission...

century. Nineteenth-century whaling was based on hunting the southern right whale and the sperm whale and 20th-century whaling concentrated on the humpback...

conservation of whales. Prior to the setting up of the IWC in 1946, unregulated whaling had depleted a number of whale populations to a significant extent, and...