In the ages preceding the rise of the whaling industry, humans could only obtain blue whale meat and blubber when a beaching occurred. As whaling technology improved, hunters were able to pursue ...

The tail meat, known as "onomi," fetched the peak ... Fin whales, the second-largest whale species after blue whales, were previously protected due to overhunting. Why Are Fin Whales Back on ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--Raw whale meat fetched 500,000 yen ($3,560) per kilogram at an auction here on Nov. 14, double the previous record of 250,000 yen set in Osaka in October.

MR. GERRIT S. MILLER'S paper, “Some o'¦'o¦ hitherto unpublished photographs and measurements of the Blue Whale” (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 66, pp. 1-4, Pis. i ...