| NOUN | a whaling fleet | whaling fleets | |
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- Sandefjord was formerly a headquarters for the Norwegian whaling fleet, and Horten used to be Norway's main naval port.
- In 2005, the company divested its whaling fleet following controversy for its role in the modern global whaling industry (see "Whaling in Japan").
- He was head photographer for "Operation Musashi", Sea Shepherd's campaign against the Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica in late 2008 / early 2009, which was also documented by Animal Planet for Whale Wars Season 2.
- Japan's repeated requests that Australia cease its support for Sea Shepherd's violent attacks upon its whaling fleet have been refused.
- Later that year, about half the legal Spanish whaling fleet was sunk in a similar fashion.
- Watson used this boat in his first actions against the Japanese whaling fleet.
- Vladivostok is a base for the Russian whaling fleet.
- His ashes were scattered in northern Canada near the Arctic on a canoeing trip, at Tortuga Bay in the Galapagos Islands, and on top of an Antarctic iceberg during the 2005/2006 Sea Shepherd campaign against whaling by the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
- Basque commercial and fishing activity reached its peak before the "Armada Invencibles disaster (1588), when the Spanish Basque whaling fleet was confiscated by King Philip II of Spain and largely destroyed.
- In 2016, according to the country's Institute for Cetacean Research, Japan's whaling fleet has killed 333 minke whales in the part of this year's Antarctic whale hunt.
- The town of Ogatsu is regionally famous for its inkstones and has an annual scallop festival in the summer. Ayukawa, a town in Oshika, was formerly a base for several ships in Japan's whaling fleet.
- Before the arrival of the pelagic whaling fleet after 1835 into the range of the North Pacific right whale, the whale's population size, at least in the eastern part of its range, was probably at its original population size—in the range of 20,000–30,000 whales.
- The 2008 documentary "At the Edge of the World" chronicled the efforts of Watson and 45 volunteers to hinder the Japanese whaling fleet in the waters around Antarctica.
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