Daley, the Makah hunted and killed a juvenile gray whale. A steel harpoon was thrown from a traditional whaling canoe and, once struck, the whale was shot with a .577 caliber hunting rifle fired from ...

Fearing cannibals in the nearby Marquesas Islands, the majority of the crew members crowd into three small whaling boats and head east on a 3,000 mile journey towards the coast of Peru.

The Makah Tribe has formally requested permission to resume its traditional whale hunt this July. A permit application is out ...

Four humpback whales were observed off Taiwan's east coast on Tuesday, marking both the year's first official sighting and ...

The men just had time to save some of the provisions and regroup in three small whaling boats before their ship succumbed to the waves. “My God, Mr. Chase, what is the matter?” Captain Pollard ...

Using the whale catcher boats, the Cheynes II, III and IV, the whalers took an average of 86 humpbacks a year until a ban on hunting that species came into effect in 1963. In 1955, they had begun ...

The protections had recommended that boats traversing Rice's whale habitat slow down to 10 knots and keep 500 meters of distance between boats and any whale that could be a Rice’s whale ...