The Institute of Cetacean Research is a Japanese research organization that claims to specialise in "biological and social sciences related to whales" but is widely believed to be a front for commerci
A Minke whale and her 1-year-old calf are hauled aboard the whaling factory ship, the Nisshin Maru. The image was taken by Australian customs agents in 2008. The ICR's web address is visible above the carcasses.
Whale meat for sale at Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo
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Whaling is the hunting of whales for their products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution. Although it remains unclear where
To the left, the black-hulled whaling ships. To the right, the red-hulled whale-watching ship. Iceland, 2011.
Eighteenth-century engraving showing Dutch whalers hunting bowhead whales in the Arctic
Whaling on Danes Island, by Abraham Speeck, 1634. Skokloster Castle.
One of the oldest known whaling paintings, by Bonaventura Peeters, depicting Dutch whalers at Spitzbergen c. 1645