Whaling in Iceland began with spear-drift hunting as early as the 12th century, and continued in a vestigial form until the late 19th century, when other...

feed or, in Iceland, as a fuel supplement for whaling ships. International cooperation on whaling regulation began in 1931 and culminated in the signing...

(Japan) Whaling in Australia Whaling in Iceland Whaling in Japan Whaling in Norway "IWC Member countries and commissioners". International Whaling Commission...

Vikings from Norway also introduced whaling methods for driving small cetaceans, like pilot whales, into fjords in Iceland. The Norse sagas, and other ancient...

mentioned whaling off Iceland nearly a decade after the massacre. This was the last documented massacre in Icelandic history and would be known in Iceland as...

Icelandic: Spánverjavígin [ˈspaunˌvɛrjaˌvijɪn]) was one of the last documented massacres in Icelandic history. Some Basque whalers went on a whaling expedition...

government for increases in Norway's whaling quota, promoting studies into methods of more humane whaling, lobbying the International Whaling Commission into relaxing...

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...

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whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling...

A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales. The term whaler is mostly historic...

boycott Icelandic projects if the whaling continues. The 2023 Icelandic whaling season concluded in September. In total, 23 fin whales were caught in the...

Hvalur 9 RE-399 is an Icelandic whaling ship built in 1952 in Norway. It has been a part of the Icelandic whaling fleet operated and owned by the company...

country. Whaling in Iceland was historically significant. It is now one of the most developed countries in the world. Strong economic growth led Iceland to...

Russia to develop whale watching. Upon the resumption of whaling in Iceland in August 2003, pro-whaling groups, such as fishermen who argue that increased stocks...

mammals. Since then, Iceland has resumed whaling for scientific purpose and has rejoined the IWC (in October 2002). The Icelandic Fisheries Ministry issued...

international endangered species list. In 2006, the Icelandic fisheries ministry announced that it would authorise commercial whaling again, making it only the second...

in Iceland's Reykjavík harbour in November 1986, when anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society sank the unoccupied whaling vessels...

Hvalur 8 RE-388 is an Icelandic whaling ship built in 1948 in Norway. It has been a part of the Icelandic whaling fleet operated and owned by the company...

The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international environmental agreement aimed at the "proper conservation of whale stocks...

Hvalur 6 RE-376 is an Icelandic whaling ship built in 1946 in England by Smith's Dock Company. It has been a part of the Icelandic whaling fleet operated and...

Anti-whaling refers to actions taken by those who seek to end whaling in various forms, whether locally or globally in the pursuit of marine conservation...

The Icelandic Phallological Museum (Icelandic: Hið íslenzka reðasafn [ˈhɪːð ˈistlɛnska ˈrɛːðaˌsapn̥]), located in Reykjavík, Iceland, houses the world's...

is part of the municipality of Fjarðabyggð. In the early 20th century, the village was a Norwegian whaling station. The village also hosted the Dalatangi...

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Sandefjord established the first whaling station in the Faroe Islands, whalers from Tønsberg initiated whaling in Iceland and the Hebrides.: 84  During the...

beef. When Iceland withdrew from the International Whaling Commission in 1992, commercial whaling stopped. Some whale meat was still sold in specialised...

Farming in Iceland during the Middle Ages was complemented by hunting and gathering along the coast. Coastal areas facilitated fishing, whaling, and hunting...