News About Whales 19-NOV-09 en-us Scituate MA (UPI) Nov 5, 2009 - A study of whale-watching boats visiting Stellwagen Bank from Massachusetts ports found all of them exceeding voluntary speed limits.]]> Vancouver, British Columbia (UPI) Oct 10, 2009 - Wildlife experts say they're trying to determine why fish-eating killer whales roughed up harbor porpoises and left them for dead off British Columbia.]]> Reykjavik (AFP) Sept 25, 2009 - Iceland's fin whaling company said on Friday it plans a huge export of about 1,500 tonnes of whale meat, mainly to Japan, after wrapping up its hunting season for this year.]]> Paris (AFP) Sept 23, 2009 - Seismic surveys used for oil and gas prospecting on the sea floor are a disturbance for blue whales, the world's biggest animal and one of its rarest species, biologists reported on Wednesday.]]> Taiji, Japan (AFP) Sept 11, 2009 - To animal rights activists it's a cruel and bloody slaughter; for Japanese it's a long tradition: this week fishermen in a picturesque coastal town embarked on their annual dolphin hunt.]]> Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2009 - We can only marvel at the way that dolphins, whales and porpoises scythe through water. Their finlike flippers seem perfectly adapted for maximum aquatic agility.]]> Funchal, Portugal (AFP) June 25, 2009 - The International Whaling Commission's annual conference ended in disarray Thursday, keeping in place a ban on commercial whaling amid deep rifts between hunters and conservationists.]]> Newport OR (SPX) Jun 26, 2009 - Scientists are warning that a new form of unregulated whaling has emerged along the coastlines of Japan and South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries "bycatch" is threatening coastal stocks of minke whales and other protected species.]]> Funchal, Portugal (AFP) June 24, 2009 - International Whaling Commission members agreed Wednesday to extend negotiations over the disputed hunting of the marine mammals for a year, avoiding a disastrous split in the group.]]> Funchal, Portugal (AFP) June 22, 2009 - The organisation that regulates world whaling opened a crucial conference on Monday with leaders seeking to avoid a disastrous split over hunting the marine mammals.]]>