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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 90. Chapters: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Moby-Dick, International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, International Whaling Commission, History of whaling, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Nantucket shipbuilding, Whaling controversy, Anti-whaling, Dolphin drive hunting, Whale watching, Whale Whores, Sperm whaling, Samuel Enderby & Sons, Scrimshaw, Flensing, George Pollard, Jr., Whale meat, Samuel Godin, Thomas Luce & Company, Nye Lubricants, Whaling Disaster of 1871, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Christian Salvesen, Aboriginal whaling, Noordsche Compagnie, Coastal Party, Killer whales of Eden, Australia, IWC meeting in 2006, Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Mocha Dick, Muktuk, Seamen's Bethel, Jarmann harpoon rifle, J. & W. R. Wing Company, New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, Charles Melville Scammon, Sandefjord Museum, Solveig Gunbjorg Jacobsen, IWC meeting in 2005, North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, Taiji Twelve, Try pot, South Georgia Museum, IWC meeting in 2007, Kosmos, Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, Trywork, Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary, Edouard A. Stackpole, Erik Eriksen, High North Alliance, Grindaknivur, Lewis Temple, Dundee Whaling Expedition, Troaking, South Pacific Whale Sanctuary, Whaling-foreman, Azorean Maritime Heritage Society, Nantucket sleighride, IWC meeting in 2008, IWC meeting in 2009, IWC meeting in 2010, Boatsteerer, Head spade, Grind og spik, Catwalk. Excerpt: The history of whaling is very extensive, stretching back for millennia. This article discusses the history of whaling up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Humans have engaged in whaling since prehistoric times. The oldest known method of catching cetaceans is simply to drive them ashore by placing a number of small boats between the animal ...
