Where does Japan's whale meat come from?
...rade continues it could drive a unique subgroup of minke whales in the Sea of Japan to extinction. Sale ...en stockpiles, from the annual catch of around 500 minke whales which the government is allowed to kill for scientific study, or from "bycatch" -- whales kil...Scientists record extraordinary sounds made by minke whales
...st went to Australia to record the sounds of dwarf minke whales, people told them they were wasting their time. There were very few reports of minke whale vocalizations, and some experts believed the species rarely made any sounds at all. But accord...Whale populations are too low to resume commercial hunting, geneticists find
...lumbi focused on the genetics of humpback, fin and minke whales three species decimated in the mid-19th an...re a total of 800,000 to 900,000 humpback, fin and minke whales far greater numbers than anybody ever thought," Palumbi said. Take humpback whales, for exa......n ships set sail to resume their country's hunt of minke whales, and Canadian hunters are continuing their cull of harp seals, the largest for 50 years. Debates over whether such animals degrade fish stocks have raged for years. Japan and Iceland, for example, continue to press the International Whaling C...