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Officials begin investigation after cruise ship arrives at harbor with endangered whale corpse across bow: 'We are deeply saddened'
The Associated Press reported that the Meraviglia, a ship owned by Swiss-Italian line MSC Cruises, pulled into the Port of ...
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Scientists have a whale of a time as they unveil how the marine mammals can sing underwater
Researchers also created computer models of the sei whale’s vocalisations and matched them to recordings of similar whales taken in the wild. Whales’ ancestors were land-dwellers about 50 ...
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Sei whale breeding song identified for the first time in Falklands' waters
A sei whale in front of the distinctive backdrop of Cape Pembroke. Photos: Caroline Weir Acoustic research by wildlife charity, Falklands Conservation (FC), and the non-profit African Aquatic ...
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Japan Sells Sei Whale Meat in Violation of CITES
On July 1, Japan announced commercial whaling quotas authorizing the annual slaughter of 25 sei whales, 187 Bryde’s whales, and 171 minke whales. The IWC’s underlying treaty, the International ...
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Raw whale meat sells for a record price in auction in Shimonoseki
The meat put on auction on Nov. 14 came from the most coveted “onomi” portion of a sei whale caught off Nemuro in eastern Hokkaido by the Nisshin Maru whaling ship. The whale meat was stored ...
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Japan has built a new 9,300 tons whaling fleet mother ship which is ready for the hunting season
including a cap of 167 for minke whales, 187 for Bryde’s and 25 for Sei whales. According to some analysts, this is a relatively small quota for a large vessel such as Kangei Maru, fueling ...
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Japan auctions Fresh fin whale meat at $1,300 for 2lbs for the first time in decades
Japan set a total quota of 379 for the three other whale species, which include minke, Bryde's and sei whales. The country's only large-scale whaling fleet operator, Kyodo Senpaku Co., launched ...
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Japan proposes expanding commercial whaling to fin whales, a larger species than the 3 allowed now
For this year, the agency has set a combined catch quota of 379 for the three other whale species. Last year, Japanese whalers caught 294 minke, Bryde’s and sei whales — less than 80% of the ...
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Japan resumes commercial whaling after 30 years
The whaling ships have a permit to catch 227 minke, Bryde's and sei whales this year in Japanese waters. Japan's last commercial hunt was in 1986, but it has continued whaling for what it says are ...
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SI Audio S3 Sei whale larynx_Acceleration.wav (AUDIO)
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What Killed the Whale?
Why are whales dying in record numbers? And is the crisis man made? Biologist Ella Al-Shamahi joins a specialist autopsy into the death of a 40-foot sei whale, washed up near Edinburgh.