It is when you hunt whale’s for the oil and meat

The oil was used to fuel lamps b4 electricity

They are also hunted for their baleen which is whale bone.

- The Korean’s have been hunting whales since 5000 BC.

- Norwegian’s began whaling about 4,000 years ago.

- People from the North American coast and the Artic have a long tradition of whaling.

- Whaling was usually done from canoes or boats using harpoons

There are still countries today that continue whaling. Those countries include…

Japan Norway Iceland

In 1932 through 1933 there were attempts made to stop and restrict whale hunting.

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) formed in Washington, D.C., by 17 different nations. Helps to limit the number of whales that could be

hunted. Other groups such as GreenPeace became

very involved in the attempts to stop whaling.

What Japan says… Hunting them for

scientific research Age, health

Eating whale meat is tradition.

Pride

What environmentalists say…

Japan is hunting them for meat

Japan could find age, health info through other means.

http://animal.discovery.com/videos/whale-wars-a-life-destroyed.html

http://animal.discovery.com/videos/whale-wars-salvaging-the-ady-gil.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP7PZMMpgcw

The harpoon was invented by a norwegian named Sven Foyn. It was used because it contains an explosive head which would kill a whale instantly

Whale hunter’s also used factory ships because it was safe and made it easier to catch larger whales.

Factory ship - a whaling ship equipped to process whale products at sea.

Minke whales, Northern

Hemisphere minke whales

Fin whales Bryde's whale Sei whales Sperm whales

www.encyclopedia.com/topic/whaling.aspx

www.swedishwire.com/nordic/sosl-whale-hunting-facts-and-figures-

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars/whaling/why-japanese-hunt-whales.html

1) Which country still whale today? A) korea B) china C) phillipines D) japan

2) The _______ is used to kill whales.3) What are whales used for?4) Japan says they hunt whales mainly for…

A) funB) scientific researchC) Test out weapons

5) The International Whaling Commision (IWC) was formed in _________ ______

6) What is a Factory Ship? 7) Whaling is usually done from _______’s

or ______’s 8) The harpoon was invented by…

A) Richard S B) Bill Gates C) Sven Foyn

Questions Continued

9) Whaling is when you… A) Ride whales B) Train whales C) Play with whales D) Hunt whales

10) Other groups such as Green ______ became very involved in the attempts to stop whaling.