The Whaling Industry

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The definition of whaling in the dictionary is “the practice or industry of hunting and killing whales for their oil, meat, or whalebone.” Whaling has been around for centuries, some evidence even showing whaling being practiced as far back as 6,000 B.C. So in other words, whaling has been around for thousands of years. In the 17th century whaling had truly been materialized into an industry. For the next two centuries, the whaling industry had skyrocketed, making it a highly competitive business and slowly making the whales a dying species.
In the 1700’s, American colonists began developing their own whale fishery. The islanders from Nantucket had killed their first sperm whale in 1712, due to the poor soil used for farming. At this day an
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Up until 1993 when Norway objected to the whaling moratorium, and resumed hunting for minke whales. Norway sets its own quota when it comes to killing whales, and the numbers seem to rise higher and higher each year. They have gone from being able to kill 671 whales in 2002 to 1,000 whales today.
And lastly, Iceland has been on and off with the IWC. Iceland and Japan have the same story when it comes to “scientific research” with whales. In 1992, Iceland had withdrew from the IWC. Twelve years later in 2004, they rejoined the IWC. And finally in 2006, Iceland went back to its old ways for good continuing with commercial whaling. They have not been with the IWC since, and killed a total of 148 endangered fin whales and 60 minke whales in 2010.
Today, the United States and other IWC country members have tried to persuade the other three countries to end their commercial whaling. After the pressure from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the U.S government had declared Iceland in defiance of the IWC ban in 2011. No punishments were carried out, Iceland was was being urged to cease its commercial whaling activities. Today, Iceland is still whale hunting along with Norway and

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