The Whaling Museum in Cold Spring Harbor ramps up to the busiest time of the year, preparing for thousands to travel across ...

NEW BEDFORD — The Whaling City Festival is ready to kick off another season of celebrating New Bedford. From July 10 to the ...

Most of the crew of a whaling ship sets out in smaller boats to pursue their prey. Only four crew members are left behind, ...

Secretary Santiago of the Executive Office of Veterans Services will visit New Bedford for a town hall with local veterans to ...

Buried in the 940-page bill is a provision upping a deduction some can take for whale-hunting-related expenses to $50,000 ...

Whaling was a grisly business, but it enabled a life of comfort and ease that was at odds with this reality. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

Agreed in 1982, and introduced in 1986, the whaling moratorium was brought in after a prolonged and intense campaign by green pressure groups highlighting the fact that many populations of the ...

As another whaling season comes to a close, and the decades-old debate between industry and activist continues, Loftsson still insists that his company is pro-whale conservation business.

But whaling “has become a sensitive, nationalistic topic,” she said. “It’s not about whaling itself. It’s more about Japanese pride and standing up for what people see as their culture.” ...

Commercial whaling was banned in 1986 under a moratorium by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) after whale populations were almost driven to extinction by humans.

Commercial whaling was banned in 1986 under a moratorium by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) after whale populations were almost driven to extinction by humans.