In whaling, a spear, fork or dart tied with a rope is shot or thrown into the whale to hunt. There are two kinds of hunting objects: fin whales and toothed whales, mainly blue whales, fin whales, right whales, sperm whales, humpback whales, arctic whales, gray whales, gray whales and small gray whales. Because whale oil is a valuable industrial raw material, whaling activities in some countries in Europe and America are very prosperous in history. Since the mid-20th century, due to the decline of resources caused by overfishing and the international restrictions on whaling, the whaling industry began to decline.

Major whaling countries:

Norway

In 2004, the Norwegian parliament passed a bill to increase the number of minke whales killed each year, and the Ministry of Fisheries also passed a plan to track whales by satellite. As for the practice of putting beacons on whales, it has been implemented since 1999. Since 2006, Norway has increased its whaling target by 30%. Norwegian fishermen are allowed to catch 1052 minke whales every year, but it is rare to catch all minke whales over the years.

Russia

Like Iceland and Japan, Russia has a long history of catching killer whales and dolphins. 1970, Bigg M.A tracked the photos of killer whales and found that the age of killer whales was quite different from the estimated age. This is followed by scientific whaling in Russia, although its actual motivation for whaling has been questioned for the past 40 years. The International Whaling Commission allows Russia to catch 140 gray whales every year in Chukchi Autonomous Region.

Japan

The documentary "Dolphin Bay" was filmed in 2009 and tells the story of fishermen killing dolphins every year in Taiji Town, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. Those cruel pictures are heartbreaking, shocking and tearful. [ 1]

This documentary reflects the real situation of commercial whaling in Japan. In fact, in retrospect, Japan's commercial whaling has a history of more than 400 years, and Japan is also the largest whaling and whale-eating country in the world. 1986, the International Convention for the Prohibition of Whaling came into effect, and members of the Whaling Commission announced that they would give up commercial whaling, including Japan. However, from 65438 to 0987, under the banner of "scientific research", Japan bypassed international conventions and began large-scale whaling. [ 1]

Although Greenpeace is protesting and stopping Japanese whaling in various ways, Japanese whaling has never stopped.

20 14 On April 25th, four so-called Japanese scientific whaling ships set out from the port of Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture to kill minke whales in the northwest Pacific Ocean. This is also the first time that the whaling fleet left Hong Kong after the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled in March that Japan was prohibited from conducting scientific whaling in Antarctic waters. [ 1]