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Wow! The history of whaling is the story of man-made global warming. When the people making the money are the only ones who make the decisions, the end is near.
Contents
What is Modern Whaling? | 3 |
The Emergence of Modern Whaling | 16 |
The Whaling Industry | 37 |
Finnmark Whaling during the Period of Free | 55 |
The Dispute over Whale Conservation in North Norway | 61 |
The Importance of Finnmark Whaling | 68 |
The North Atlantic | 75 |
The Pacific III | 111 |
The World Crisis and the Whaling Industry 19301934 | 386 |
New Nations embarking on Pelagic Whaling | 414 |
Inc? The Dispute over Whaling Regulations | 433 |
The London Agreement of 1937 | 448 |
Years of Renewed Crisis 19371939 | 457 |
The Whaling Committee | 486 |
Rebuilding the Whaling Fleets 19451949 | 499 |
The International Whaling Commission in the 1950s | 545 |
Towards the South 18921904 | 147 |
The Start of Antarctic Whaling 19041908 | 157 |
South America and Mexico | 202 |
The African Interlude | 208 |
Australia and New Zealand 19111916 19221928 | 220 |
The Basis for the Expansion of 19061914 | 227 |
Technical Developments before 1930 | 250 |
Whaling Life in the Antarctic | 277 |
Whaling during the First World War | 292 |
Crisis and Reconstruction 19201923 | 306 |
The First Attempts in New and Old Grounds | 313 |
The Expansion of 19271931 | 367 |
The Last Expansion 19551961 | 573 |
The Dispute over National Quotas 19581962 | 589 |
The Collapse 19621968 | 613 |
Antarctic Epilogue | 638 |
Whaling outside the Antarctic after 1945 | 644 |
The Whaling Industry the Environment and Natural | 679 |
Technical Developments after 1930 | 689 |
STATISTICAL APPENDIX | 731 |
| 756 | |
A FINAL NOTE | 774 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The History of Modern Whaling |
| Authors | Johan Nicolay Tønnessen, Arne Odd Johnsen |
| Translated by | R. I Christophersen |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1982 |
| ISBN | 0520039734, 9780520039735 |
| Length | 798 pages |
| Subjects | › Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection |
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