The Whaling: The Most Dangerous Career

The largest member of the dolphin family is the killer whale, the killer whale is often referred to as an orca. Killer whales are important to biology because they are essential to the oceanic ecosystem. They keep the food chain intake balanced by regulating certain marine mammals, and that helps other animals to not become overpopulated. Killer whales are also important because they help the economy due to whale watching. Killer whales help science by helping scientist understand echolocation which helps them learn more about marine species and how to protect ocean animals from other noises. Killer whales have been kept captive for over 51 years. Killer whales being held captive generate a large profit for companies, while the killer whales live in a shallow concrete tank compared to their free-ranging lives in the wild. Trainers dying, whales dying, and numerous injuries documented on both trainers and whales provide why whales should not be kept in captivity.

Whaling was very physical and economic business and the primary products were spermaceti, whale bones, sperm, and whale oil. The Native Americans used whaling for tribal purposes. The colonist in NEw ENgland hunted whales for baleen and oil. Whaling also gave them better burning candles. This is how the number of hales began to decrease as time went on.

Did you know that when an whale is kept in captivity its lifespan is cut almost in half? (Smolowe, par. 3). Whales in captivity are often abused, underfed, and poorly cared for. They become much more aggressive and develop completely different personalities than if they are left in the wild. They are a danger to the trainers that work with them, one whale at SeaWorld has killed 3 people. The whales are captured and forced to live in swimming pools that are barely bigger than they are and perform shows.

Whales were peeled by vessels, conserved by the cold, and packed in barrels. 1719 Greenland whaling operation spread into Davis Strait. Davis Strait whaling operation was in the power of the Dutch and German until 1780. The Britain had to leave and service their industrial revolution. From the beginning of the 1690s the British had hunted down whales (have been fishing) in the Bay of North America colonies,also in Rhode Island, Long Island, Cape Cod. These were new centers of activity for (whaling) fishing. Then, during 1712 the Nantucket vessel capture the first sperm whale,these became a brand new center.

In 1819, The whale ship, Essex, set its sails and departed from Nantucket, Massachusetts on a voyage to the Pacific Ocean to hunt and kill sperm whales and retrieve the abundance of oil the whales possess, which became a crucial component in 19th century industry [2]. The island of Nantucket had been one of the most important oil businesses for quite some time. For the crew of the whale ships, harvesting whales was a tough assignment; when a whale was spotted, the crew would approach it, harpoon it, and then try to kill it. Once a whale was killed, its blubber was peeled from the corpse and then boiled for the high quality oil. On this particular journey the crew faced even more difficulties than just the killing

The whaling industry came to America in the early 1700s with shore whaling. Settlers whaled near shore, then sold the whale’s oil, ambergris, and spermaceti for considerable profit. The success of these sales prompted wealthy Quakers from New Bedford and Nantucket Island to invest in whaling ports stocked with efficient ships, equipment, and crews. These ports accumulated much money for the Massachusetts towns. Aided by the inventions of the tryworks and toggling harpoon, America fast became a prominent name in the whaling industry. By 1846, America owned almost 82% of the world’s total whaling ships (Barcott, “In the Shadow of Moby-Dick”). Unfortunate the American whaling industry declined 13 years later as the rising petroleum market and

Whaling as a business in America first began in the early seventeenth century with the English settlers. As the settlers carelessly butchered whales who’d accidentally washed ashore, they remembered how prominently the oil was used back home, and began selling and using the oil as a commodity. The “industry” was then furthered, beginning with simple row boats capturing whales which neared the land. Soon, ships stocked with crews specifically for whaling were being paid for and shipped out, mostly from ports in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. As the industry grew and higher demands came for whale oil, focuses shifted from Nantucket to New Bedford. Oil was now being used broadly, with baleen for umbrella handles, ambergris for perfume, and spermaceti

The article “Iceland Tourism Courts Controversy with Whale-Hunting Trips”, written by Tom Mackenzie and Ed Kiernan talks about how one of the richest men in Iceland, Kristjan Loftsson owns the only commercial fin whaling company in the world. I believe there is room for both whale hunting and whale watching as long as whale hunting is kept limited. There should be a tracking system where each company should be given the annual quota and if they go over, penalize them with a charge. Whale watching is important because as Masson from the article said, “I think 99 percent of the tourists who come to Iceland, they are coming here to experience wild nature at its best”. People like watching whales because of wild nature and they enjoy watching them in the water. The reason

For them, the whale is a kind of important food and whale blubber provided energy. Each spring, they would paddle out in their canoes which named Uniaks. Using harpoons which head are stone and inflated seal skins to force the whale to surface. When the whale tired, they would use harpoons repeatedly stab it. They will almost not wasted any part of whales. They are eating the skin, fins, blubber, flesh, tongue, intestines, kidneys and heart. The blubber was use provide light and heat and the bones were used as building materials and tools. “British and American vessels pursued the bowhead whale in Hudson Bay for just over half a century before bringing the whale stock close to extinction. During this period whaling exerted a powerful, sustained influence upon the Eskimo, who had hitherto enjoyed only sporadic and irregular contact with passing explorers and distant trading posts.” ( Ross, W. G. 1975) Because whalers coming, the life of Eskimo had many changes. May to September are the best time to whaling, after this there are the long (ten-month) period of inactivity. Long time stay in harbors facilitated prolonged contact with the Eskimos. The Eskimo became indispensable to the whalemen, assisting in whaling, hunting and overland travel. At the same time, the whalemen came to be a port of the new Eskimo life. “ A way of life in which firearms, whaleboats and a wide variety of imported goods played an increasingly important role. This economic interdependence constituted the foundation of the Eskimo-whalemen relation.” ( Ross, W. G. 1975) Furthermore, whale not the only one target for the whalemen. When hunting with Arctic, whalers came across many different animals such as polar bears, walruses, musk oxen and birds. Some were brought home for sale to the zoo, and this is the main reason why many animals which live in the Arctic came to Britain. However, some polar bears were killed. “ Polar bears were killed by rifles;

Another argument against the expansion of whaling involves the morality and ethical aspects of killing whales. Currently, explosive harpoons tipped with a 30-g penthrite grenade are used by Norwegian and Icelandic whaling fleets as the primary mechanism of causing lethal trauma (Knudsen and Oen 2003). If there is any question whether the harpoon delivered a lethal blow, rifles chambered in .375 or .458 are fired at the cranium. Average time to death in minke whales in the North Atlantic was calculated at 141 seconds with a maximum time to death of 90 minutes (Simmonds 2006). Conservationists consider even the average time to death too long to be considered humane. Another point anti-whaling groups bring up is the high degree of intelligence

1,000 of whales are still being killed or captured of scientific research or captivity (“Ending Commercial Whaling”). In captivity whales will usually have been separated from their families or often in cruel hunts. People think it is okay to use animals for testing but animals react differently to drugs and putting whales and dolphins in tanks for our “entertainment” is wrong.

Fishermen kill whales for materials, food; and sometimes even money. Whales can be killed by fishermen because they are needed for essential materials, and are also used as a food source. Some people think that whaling should not be allowed because it is destroying the population of whales. Whaling should be legal around the world because of two main reasons. Whales are used as a food source, and for essential materials like oil, and fertilizer.

1. The dispute was motivated, to a small extent, by the genuine desire to protect the Canadian culture. That is because the government felt that the magazine companies which had a long history covering local news and employed a long chain of Canadians, couldn't be allowed to collapse. It would mean the disappearance and extinction of what some Canadians at, the, time, identified with.

Commercial whaling should be banned because they could become extinct and can also stop the process of making the ocean better for other animals. By over whaling, the increase of whaling, would then decrease in one rapaid movement and also will be causing the water to be polluted. Even though the whales have been killed centuries ago, it hasn't caused ecological damage due to our un-advanced technologies. Later on, hunting materials start to evolve between the 17th and 20th centuries where whales today are killed greatly from the increase of globalized commercial whaling.Therefore, it causes many species of whale not to be recovered from whaling ever since. Furthermore, an Anti-whaling group called Greenpeace have estimated that there's only

Do you believe whaling is a good thing? I belive that whaling isnt a bad thing.Here are the 3 reasons why i belivethat whaling isnt a bad thing. 1.Its profitable for money. 2.History of whaling. 3.Employment opportunities.