Fin Whale

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We won't cut whale catch, say Japanese  -  Nov 13, 2008
The Australian,50 fin whales though last season, severely disrupted by Sea Shepherd Society and Greenpeace International vessels, it did not catch a single fin whale.

Whale struck by cargo ship seen being consumed by sharks off L.A.  -  Nov 11, 2008
Los Angeles Times,It turned out to be a juvenile fin whale, almost 40 feet long. An average of one-plus whale is known to suffer this fate annually in the Southern California

A sad ending for 46-foot fin whale struck by ship  -  Oct 22, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Somewhere in choppy seas beyond San Francisco is the carcass of the 46-foot fin whale you see in these photos. The whale was struck by a freighter in the

On the Waterfront: Cargo ship kills whale  -  Oct 20, 2008
Long Beach Press-Telegram,By Kris Hanson, Staff Writer Biologists are investigating the death of a fin whale that appears to have been struck and killed by a freight ship near the

Johnstone Strait, off Vancouver Island, may be the world's best ...  -  Oct 26, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,In 1999, not far from here, the Celebrity ship Galaxy hit and killed a fin whale - the second largest living thing on Earth - then pinned it to its bow and

Baja AirVentures Combines Whales with Wellness, Land with Sea and ...  -  Nov 12, 2008
TravelVideo.tv (press release)Boat excursions from the retreat provide an added opportunity to view several types of whales, including the fin whale (the second largest in the world).

Go with the floe  -  Oct 21, 2008
South China Morning Post (subscription),The lads got a fin whale the day before I came, and apparently you get a lot of meat on a fin whale. But, for moral reasons, I've decided this is going to

Morning Buzz: Tuesday 10.21.08  -  Oct 21, 2008
LA Observed,Bottleneck Blog A 48-foot female fin whale was carried into the Port of Long Beach on the bow of a freighter that struck and killed the whale.

Rare sighting of blue whale in seas off southwest coast  -  Sep 17, 2008
Irish Times,...“At 2.30pm we were watching a fin whale mother and calf blowing dead ahead when, all of a sudden, this incredibly large creature surfaced 15-20 yards off

55-foot fin whale washes ashore at Island Beach State Park  -  Aug 30, 2008
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com,...by Alexi Friedman/The Star-Ledger A 55-foot fin whale washed ashore today at Island Beach State Park in Ocean County. The whale, which had been dead for

Giant whale washed up on Cresswell beach  -  Sep 18, 2008
Journal Live,She said: “We believe it is either a minke or fin whale, although we are leaning towards a minke. “It is quite badly decomposed, so it is hard to tell.

The Majesty of the Whale  -  Sep 23, 2008
BlueFlipper Diving,One encounter with a particular fin whale sticks in my mind. Loon - so named because of a patch on its back that resembled the diving seabird - decided to

Whale sounds recorded off Jones Beach  -  Sep 16, 2008
Newsday,The fin whale's song is so low, recordings must be speeded up to be heard by the human ear, Clark said. Audible from New York to Bermuda, the rhythmic,

Animal bones offer clues to evolution  -  Sep 6, 2008
Boston Globe,Gwil Jones (left) shows a fin whale skeleton to students Andre Robinson, Sydney Sollazzo, Jake Smith, and Rachel Burke. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff) By

Quebec is magnifique in fall  -  Sep 9, 2008
Los Angeles Times,..."The fin whale," Martine explains, first in French and then in English, "can dive for 20 to 30 minutes." Some listen, some stare at the water hoping for

Sam Branson's Arctic diary  -  Sep 2, 2008
Mirror.co.uk,The fin whale can reach a length of up to 25 meters and can weigh an enormous 90 tonnes. A regular summer visitor to the Arctic, the fin whale is similar in

Reporters on the Job  -  Sep 4, 2008
Christian Science Monitor,But on a neighboring island, Grand Manan, Colin has seen whales that didn't make it: the near-skeletal remains of a fin whale and a right whale that were

85 tonnes of whale meat to be dumped?  -  Sep 3, 2008
Wildlife Extra,The whale meat - consisting of between 60 and 80 tonnes of fin whale meat from Iceland, and about 5 tonnes of minke whale meat from Norway - has now been

Beachgoers surprised by large piece of washed-up whale blubber  -  Sep 2, 2008
Asbury Park Press,...said the blubber was most likely some of the remains of a 55-foot fin whale that washed up Saturday morning on the beach of Island Beach State Park.

The Waters of the Gulf of Mannar  -  Sep 1, 2008
The Island (subscription),Marine Mammals such as Dugong, Sperm Whale, Blue Whale, Fin Whale, Sei Whale, Bryde's Whale ,Short-finned Pilot Whale , Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin,

‘Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean’ opens today at Union ...  -  Sep 4, 2008
Kansas City Star,And in what must surely be the most amazing image of all, the fin whale gulps an entire school of fish, body bulging like a pelican’s bill.

Whales threatened with extinction  -  Aug 12, 2008
Radio Australia,The data shows nine species are now endangered including the world's biggest whale, the blue whale and the fin whale. But the research also shows the number

Go with the floe  -  Jul 18, 2008
guardian.co.uk,There are big buckets of whale meat here - the guys got a fin whale the day before I came, you get a lot of meat on a fin whale, so there's tons of the

Whale of a time  -  Aug 6, 2008
Pilot,Perry Young, skipper of the MV Daybreak 93, a tour boat operating out of Twillingate North, was still amazed a couple of days afterwards at what had

Beach lifeguards help shark count  -  Aug 12, 2008
BBC News,Six species of cetacean were also recorded last year, including a fin whale. The basking shark is a regular visitor to the Cornish coast but little is

Emergence of Rare Fish Here Linked to Global Warming  -  Aug 1, 2008
코리아타임즈,By Kim Rahn Giant blue-fin tuna and other semitropical fish are increasingly being caught in South Korean waters, a phenomenon linked to global warming.

Whale of a job  -  Aug 5, 2008
Victoria News,...suspending the 26-metre long skeleton seems daunting, deRoos has pieced together many animals including Finny, the 18-metre fin whale in Telegraph Cove.

Top Ten Bizarre Environmental Protests  -  Jul 23, 2008
Discover Magazine,In 2006, Greenpeace protesters moved a fin whale that had died in the Baltic Sea to the front of the Japanese embassy in Berlin, protesting Japan’s policy

Mystery corpse 'could be walrus'  -  Aug 4, 2008
South Devon Herald Express,Mr Wallace said porpoises 'have been known' to wash up on Torbay's beaches and in October 2004 a 40ft fin whale' body washed up at a Brixham beach,

Fundraiser held aboard Keen Lady IV to benefit MERR Institute  -  Jul 17, 2008
Cape Gazette,This includes a three-day response that occurred two years ago when a dead 55-foot, 70000-pound fin whale washed ashore on Middlesex Beach.

Giant skeleton's reconstruction a whale of a job  -  Aug 1, 2008
Times Colonist,..."The big challenge is moving the pieces around, they're so big," said deRoos, who previously constructed a 20-metre fin whale. "Once that happens, we try

Season Closes, and Japan's Whalers Fume  -  Apr 9, 2008
BusinessWeekThere's the blue whale, the fin whale, the humpback whale, the minke whale, 'the whale' is not threatened to extinction." Tensions between the world's pro-

Visit Quebec for close encounters with whales  -  Apr 13, 2008
Asbury Park Press,Lamarche shouted as he pointed toward a fin whale. ("There she blows!"sounds much less corny in French.) "About 100 fin whales feed here every year," he

Japan blames anti-whaling groups for low catch  -  Apr 14, 2008
TV3 News,...blaming their dismal catch on sabotage, Greenpeace spokeswoman Bunny McDiarmid says research should've shown them that fin whale populations were down.

Great whales can be seen off Delaware’s coastline  -  Apr 1, 2008
The News Journal,However, there were some mistakes The fin whale is the second largest whale, weighing 50 to 70 tons. The humpback whale weighs a mere 25 to 40 tons.

Namibia: Dead Whale Washes Up At Jakkalsputz  -  Apr 22, 2008
AllAfrica.com,A six-metre-long fin whale washed ashore at the Jakkalsputz campsite near Henties Bay over the weekend. The animal was dead, with a thick rope tied around

“Twack�? around NFLD  -  Apr 2, 2008
Canoe.ca,Using Fishers' Loft Inn as a base, you can hike the staggeringly beautiful Skerwink Trail, catching glimpses of seabirds while overlooking a fin whale

Boat show opens Friday  -  Mar 27, 2008
Times and Transcript,Along with their Shark Man stage presentations, Oceans Wild will bring along a life-size inflatable model of a fin whale that kids can walk through to learn

Baby fin whale found dead on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall  -  Feb 19, 2008
Mirror.co.uk,Marine conservation groups fear the 20ft animal discovered on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall may be one seen alive recently near Falmouth.

WHALE FOUND DEAD  -  Feb 19, 2008
The Cornishman,A NEW-born fin whale - a rare species which is the second largest animal on earth - has been found dead on the Lizard. The 6.2 metre long baby fin has been

Disoriented and weak, young fin whale dies on Israeli coast  -  Feb 3, 2008
International Herald Tribune,The calf was identified by veterinarians and volunteers as a fin whale, the second-largest mammal on earth. After struggling and thrashing for half an hour

Whale bones turn up at Matagorda Island  -  Feb 20, 2008
Houston Chronicle,Fin whale — One documented stranding off Bolivar Peninsula in 1951. • Humpback whale — One report of a young humpback sighted near the North Jetty at

Researchers nab rarely tagged fin whale in Uganik  -  Feb 4, 2008
Kodiak Daily Mirror,However, until recently, no fin whale had ever been tagged in Alaska. Since Thanksgiving, Kodiak-based UAF researcher Bree Witteveen has made two trips to

The sea like you've never seen  -  Feb 17, 2008
Cape Cod Times,Whalewatchers might only experience the fin whale as a sleek gray back and small fin hurrying away from the boat. But the greyhound of the sea is much more,

Call for whale strandings research  -  Jan 27, 2008
The Press AssociationIn the previous four and a half years no fin whale strandings were reported and the IWDG has recorded only 29 since 1990. Mick O'Connell, IWDG stranding

Whale watching indoors in Nha Trang  -  Feb 20, 2008
Saigon Times Daily,An image of the skeleton of the largest Fin Whale is also on display. It measures two meters in length and was discovered in 1850 and is currently preserved

An undersea adventure  -  Feb 16, 2008
MetroWest Daily News,Viewers can also watch a fin whale consume a massive "ball" of fish. Easy pickings since it can swallow up to 18000 gallons of water in one gulp and eat up

Senators Boxer and Snowe Pleased Japan is Scaling Back its Whale Hunt  -  Jan 23, 2008
All American Patriots (press release),...have called off their hunt of humpback whales, I remain concerned that they are still hunting over 1000 whales, including the endangered fin whale.

Anti-whaling protest ship running out of fuel  -  Jan 26, 2008
ReutersGreenpeace said it estimated the whalers needed to catch approximately nine minke whales each day and an endangered fin whale every other day in order to

Fins & Flippers  -  Feb 1, 2008
Wiscasset Newspaper,The presentation will be held at the Center for Environmental Education, under our magnificent 55-foot Northern Fin Whale skeleton suspended from the

Anti-whaling group ends pursuit  -  Jan 29, 2008
Guardian Unlimited,It estimated that the whalers needed to catch about nine minke whales a day, and an endangered fin whale every other day, to meet its quota of 835 minkes

Whale battle turns to Japan  -  Feb 3, 2008
The Mercury,Greenpeace said it was estimated that the whalers needed to catch about nine minke whales each day and an endangered fin whale every second day to reach a

Whale Slaughter Continues as Sea Shepherd Prepares to Return  -  Jan 31, 2008
Bay Area Indymedia,Endangered species such as the Fin whale continue to be slaughtered, despite their listing under CITES, which Japan is a signatory to.

Over 100 whales saved, says Greenpeace  -  Jan 28, 2008
Fish Update,It is estimated that the fleet needed to catch approximately nine minke whales each day and an endangered fin whale every other day in order to reach their

Whalers Outlast Protesters, Greenpeace Must Return to Port for Fuel  -  Jan 27, 2008
Environmental Graffiti,They would have had to catch 9 minke whales a day and 1 fin whale every other day to reach their goal, but have been unable to hunt while the Greenpeace

Fresh tribal violence hits fragile peace deal  -  Feb 3, 2008
Times Online,...(AP) JERUSALEM A 13m fin whale died when it became lost in an Israeli port near Ashkelon. Marine biologists who found the ten-month-old female calf think

Where does the ice for Winterlude's ice sculptures come from ...  -  Feb 3, 2008
Canada.com,...and also the amount of water a fin whale draws in a single gulp -- to Dubai and then spent two weeks building an ice lounge, called Chill Out,

Some whales skipping seasonal migration, wintering off Kodiak Island  -  Jan 23, 2008
Alaska Public Radio Network,And for the first time, University of Alaska marine mammal biologists successfully tagged a fin whale in Uganik Bay. Share your comment or question.

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