Japan’s new whaling mothership departed on its first expedition as the country plans to expand its commercial hunts.

Japan will add large fin whales to its list of commercial whaling species, government spokesperson Yoshimasa Hayashi said on ...

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KUSHIRO, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese whaling ships prepared on Sunday to set to sea, with crews gathering on decks in a northern port a day ahead of Japan's first commercial whaling hunt in more than ...

More than 40 years after the end of commercial whaling, new research reveals a recent increase in sightings of the world's two largest whale species in the southeastern Atlantic. The findings, ...

Japan recently left the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and has now caught the first whale in its waters since resuming commercial whaling, 33 years after a global ban came into effect. As a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan announced Wednesday that it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 years, but said it would no longer go ...

Japan's Fisheries Agency proposed adding fin whales to its commercial whaling plan alongside three smaller species. The proposal comes five years after Japan resumed commercial whaling within its ...

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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling along the country’s coast to fin whales, a larger species than the three currently permitted. The proposal comes five ...