Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Paikea: Whale People in the Modern Whaling Era
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
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Whales and Whaling in Puget Sound Coast Salish History and Culture
Jonathan Clapperton details the importance of whaling to Puget Sound Coast Salish people (Puget Salish) along the Pacific Northwest Coast.
New Histories of Pacific Whaling
About this issue
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
Content
Facing Changes, Changing Targets: Sperm-Whale Hunting in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil
Arcadia, Autumn 2019, no. 44
Beauties and Beasts: Whales in Portugal, from Early-Modern Monsters to Today’s Flagship Species
Arcadia, Autumn 2018, no. 21
Scarcity in the Arctic: A Colonial Construct?
In European imagination the North Atlantic has been seen as a region on the far borders of civilization and marked by the contrasts of scarcity and plenty.
Japan Ceases Whaling Following U.N. ICJ Ruling
Japan ceases whaling following U.N. International Court of Justice ruling that whaling is not allowed through a previous loophole stating nations could hunt whale for research purposes.
Regions:
World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)
The WWF is one of the world’s biggest environmental protection organizations with more than five million supporters worldwide.
"Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, 1611–1911: Population Reconstruction with Historical Whaling"
Allen, Robert C., and Ian Keay. “Bowhead Whales in the Eastern Arctic, 1611–1911: Population Reconstruction with Historical Whaling.” Environment and History 12, no. 1 (Feb., 2006): 89–113. doi:10.3197/097634006776026791. As early as 1611 bowhead whales resident between the east coast of Greenland and the island of Spitzbergen were the subject of intensive commercial hunting effort by Dutch, German and British whalers. By 1911 there was no significant, permanent population of bowhead whales living in these waters.
“Environmental History of Marine Mammal Exploitation in Trinidad and Tobago, W.I., and its Ecological Impact”
The authors present a comprehensive analysis of marine mammal utilisation for Trinidad and Tobago.