Wearing a toy whale hat, whale tie and a whale motif shirt, Hideki Tokoro spends much of his days thinking about the world’s largest mammals. But he doesn’t want to protect them. He wants to hunt them. To do that his company Kyodo Senpaku has built and launched a brand-new whaling $48 million “mothership” – […]
Bitcoin Whales Display Bull Market Behavior With Strong Buying Spree Bitcoin (BTC) whales, large holders of the cryptocurrency, have resumed their buying spree after a pause following Bitcoin’s all-time high in March. Market intelligence firm CryptoQuant reported a surge in the 30-day percentage change in whale address holdings, indicating a growing interest in accumulating Bitcoin […]
May 25—A Ketchikan fisherman has pleaded guilty in federal court to killing an endangered sperm whale in a first-of-its-kind case that highlights a long, little known conflict between the giant toothed whales and the fishermen whose sablefish catch they have learned to raid. In a proposed plea agreement filed May 15, Dugan Daniels agreed to […]
For the last five years, killer whales have been ramming – and in some cases sinking – expensive yachts, fishing boats and motorboats in the crystalline waters off the coast of Spain, Portugal, France and Morocco. Why has been a mystery – until recently. A multinational group of orca experts that met in February and […]
The five animals took an hour to put the sailboat beneath the waves. At the end of October 2022, four men, each in his late twenties, set sail from western France toward Lisbon. Augustin Drion, an experienced sailor from Brittany, was one of them. He had come to lend a hand to a friend from […]
Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country’s coast to fin whales, a larger species than the three currently permitted. The proposal comes five years after Japan resumed commercial whaling within its exclusive economic zone after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission in 2019. It ended 30 years of what Japan called […]
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country’s coast to fin whales, a larger species than the three currently permitted. The proposal comes five years after Japan resumed commercial whaling within its exclusive economic zone after withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission in 2019. It ended 30 years of […]
Fin whales aren’t doing so well, population-wise. They’re on the list of animals classified as “vulnerable to extinction,” but despite that, Japan has added them to the list of whales permitted to be hunted by Japanese commercial whalers. On May 9, the Japanese government made the announcement. The backlash was immediate and fierce. “This is […]
A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever to have roamed the Earth, may be recovering in Antarctica after being hunted to the edge of extinction. Commercial whaling reduced the number of Antarctic blue whales from around 125,000 in the early 1990s to […]
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North Atlantic right whales teeter on the threshold of extinction, with only 360 of them left. To honor and celebrate the right whale, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts shared a dynamic video of a massive, 37-year-old right whale swimming with her newborn calf on social media April 24. The video was shot “earlier this […]
More than 160 pilot whales became stranded off the coast of Western Australia on Thursday, local authorities said. Western Australia’s parks and wildlife authority DBCA said the whales became stranded in shallow waters near the small town of Dunsborough, some 250 kilometres south of Perth. By midday, 26 animals had died, Australian broadcaster ABC quoted […]