Japan suspended its hunt for one season to retool its whaling program with measures such as cutting the number of whales and species targeted, but resumed hunting in the 2015-2016 season, capping ...

By Lynn Desjardins | [email protected] Posted: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 10:57 Last Updated: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 11:03 ...

Whale Inc. manager Kristjan Loftsson told The Associated Press the company is working with Japanese officials on methods to fulfil the Asian country's standards for fresh meat imports.

The U.S. team recovered and analyzed data from 23 whales to help them understand how they interacted and hunted for food. Independently, both teams had learned a lot about whale hunting behaviour.

TOKYO — Japan’s whaling fleet leaves Tuesday for the Antarctic for a three-month, scaled-down hunt, the government said, despite protests from opponents who say Tokyo has not proven that ...

Humpback whales already use bubble curtains for hunting, a sophisticated collective technique. But the rings observed here are different: isolated, precise, and directed toward boats or swimmers. Of ...

U.S. federal regulators have authorized the Makah Tribe in Washington State to hunt up to 25 grey whales over the next 10 years, removing a major hurdle that had halted the tribe’s traditional ...

It allows the tribe to hunt up to 25 Eastern North Pacific gray whales over 10 years, with a limit of two to three per year. There are roughly 20,000 whales in that ­population.