Iceland's largest whaling company – Hvalur hf. – will not be hunting this season. This marks the second consecutive year that the company has opted out of whaling during the summer season.

The wealth of these captains would translate into larger, more extravagant homes. Prominent whaling/captain families include Luce, Gibbs, Delanos, and Briggs. Captain Bejamin Spooner Briggs of the ...

The detention in Greenland of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson pending possible extradition to Japan has turned the spotlight on the widely condemned practice of hunting whales.

Whaling in Iceland generally takes place between mid-June and September. With the new license, 99 whales can be hunted in the Greenland/West Iceland region and 29 whales in the East Iceland/Faroe ...

The Whaling Museum is open daily, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free for museum members; $22 for adults, $20 for seniors (65 and older), and $12 for youths.

As Iceland’s latest whaling season comes to a close, a heated debate continues over the ethics and sustainability of the country’s policy on these marine mammals. Filmmaker and activist Micah ...

Eyeing an early 2024 opening, renovation is fully underway to bring back La Jolla’s beloved Whaling Bar. This week, management at La Valencia Hotel released preview images of what patrons can ...

Whaling is one of the most sophisticated forms of phishing out there. The “whale”, or the target of these scams are high-level individuals such as CEOs, senior executives, and managers.

When whaling in North America hit its peak in the mid-1800s, hundreds of ships armed with gun-loaded harpoons set off on hunts in the South Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

Japan's whaling fleet is operated by Kyodo Senpaku Co., the sole offshore whaling company in Japan. It has an annual quota of 52 Minke whales, 150 Bryde's and 25 Sei whales within the nation's ...

Whaling — in the context of online scams, not the horrendous practice that was outlawed in the U.S. in the '70s — is much like phishing in that it involves tricking a target with a fraudulent ...

Roughly 15 years before Herman Melville introduced the world to Moby Dick, a whaling ship from Massachusetts sank near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Read more on Boston.com.