Whaling in Canada encompasses both aboriginal and commercial whaling, and has existed on all three Canadian oceans, Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic. The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast have whaling traditions dating back millennia, and the hunting of cetaceans continues by Inuit (mostly beluga and narwhal, but also the subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale). By the late 20th century, watching whales was a more profitable enterprise than hunting them.
WhalinginCanada encompasses both aboriginal and commercial whaling, and has existed on all three Canadian oceans, Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic. The...
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the...
whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whalingin 1986. Whaling...
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the...
Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. However, Japanese...
Atlantic. The French explorer Samuel de Champlain, when writing about Basque whalingin Terranova (i.e. Newfoundland), described them as "the cleverest men at...
British Columbia and Alaska, and so are covered in more detail in the articles WhalinginCanada and Whalingin the United States respectively, some of the...
of commercial whalingin the United States and inCanada are over. The bowhead whale is of great cultural significance to the Iñupiat in Utqiagvik, Alaska...
The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international environmental agreement aimed at the "proper conservation of whale stocks...
Aboriginal whaling or indigenous whaling is the hunting of whales by indigenous peoples recognised by either IWC (International Whaling Commission) or...
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is a specialised regional fishery management organisation, established under the terms of the 1946 International...
Commercial whalingin the United States dates to the 17th century in New England. The industry peaked in 1846–1852, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent...
The Canada goose (Branta canadensis), sometimes called Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its...
waters near Canada. Most of the visits in the 16th century were unrecorded, although by mid-century the number of European fishing boats and whaling ships visiting...
Whalingin Australian waters began in 1791 when five of the 11 ships in the Third Fleet landed their passengers and freight at Sydney Cove and then left...
Indigenous peoples inCanada (also known as Aboriginals) are the indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada. They comprise the First Nations, Inuit...
continuing debates with the whaling industry about the best use of whales as a natural resource. Organized whale watching started in the United States, when...
dependent on the western red cedar that included wooden houses, seagoing whaling and war canoes and elaborately carved potlatch items and totem poles. Contact...
ability to reach an age of more than 200 years. The bowhead was an early whaling target. Their population was severely reduced before a 1966 moratorium...
Will Follow, and The Moontrap in English) is a 1963 Canadian documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada and directed by Michel Brault...
This is a list of Whaling Walls, which are large outdoor murals by the American artist Robert Wyland (b. 1956), featuring images of life-size gray whales...
that included wooden houses, seagoing whaling and war canoes and elaborately carved potlatch items and totem poles. In the Arctic archipelago, the distinctive...
Captain Cook first contacted the Tla'amin Nation. Blubber Bay was a whaling station in the heyday of that industry on the British Columbia Coast, where blubber...