Commercial whaling (distinguished from ASW by its participants, purpose, scale, and techniques) began in the 11 th century with the Basque inhabitants of the French and Spanish coastlines of the Bay ...

Iceland will end commercial whaling by 2024, announced Fisheries minister Svandis Svavarsdottir in a piece published in the Reykjavik daily Morgunbladid. The lawmaker representing the ruling ...

Commercial whaling is back on in Japan after a more than three-decade hiatus. The controversial move comes after the country withdrew from the International Whaling Commission on June 30th.

The fisheries ministry has set a kill cap for the season of 52 minke, 150 Bryde's and 25 sei whales. Five Japanese whaling vessels have set sail for the country's first commercial hunt in decades ...

This is the third year since Japan resumed commercial whaling in 2019, for the first time in 31 years. Japan’s whaling expeditions in the past two years have been “commercial” in name only.

Update: No commercial whaling for fin whales—a threatened species—occurred in Iceland in 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2022, the Hvalur whaling company resumed activities, and 148 fin whales were killed.

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 ...

Japan is set to allow fin whale fishing around its coast in addition to three smaller whale species currently permitted under the country's commercial whaling. The proposal comes five years after ...

The Makah Tribe has formally requested permission to resume its traditional whale hunt this July. A permit application is out for public comment.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/whaling-interview-dr-tim-d-smith/ As part of the decade long Census of Marine Life project, Dr. Tim D. Smith ...

Undeterred by declining appetites for whale meat, and unfazed by global opposition to commercial hunts, Japan's whaling industry is doubling down. Earlier this month, a company unveiled a new ...