enabled the expansion of Norwegian whaling—and that of other nations—to an industrial scale over a much broader area. After World War I, in response to dwindling whale stocks and a shortfall of whale ...

He also confronted a Norwegian union's attempts to reserve whaling jobs for its own nationals and, by the 1950s, half Salvesen's employees were British. From the outset, Salvesen's were required ...

A recent poll co-funded by AWI and other animal protection and conservation organizations paints a bleak picture for the Norwegian whaling industry’s future. Only 4 percent of Norwegians surveyed said ...

Despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling, Norwegians like Kristiansen persist in hunting minke whales—though for practical reasons they do so only in Norway’s domestic waters.

The outbreak of World War One was the death-knell of whaling in north Mayo. All fishing stopped in August 1914, and the ...

Other hunters circle nearby, waiting for a turn at the feast. Named for a Norwegian whaling entrepreneur nearly a century ago, Bryde's (pronounced BROO-duhz) are baleen whales, which use meshlike ...

For the first time in history, there is no pelagic whaling and all commercial whaling today is restricted to the territorial waters of Japan, Norway and Denmark.” With Japan now limiting its whaling ...

A Norwegian whaling station was established in Durban due to the numerous numbers of whales migrating along Durban’s Coast in 1907. The whaling station became the largest land based whaling ...