And yet, it took nearly 30 more years for some species, like the sei whales, to get any meaningful protection from the rules set by the International Whaling Commission. While the consequences of ...

The giant blue-grey sei whales have made a triumphant return to the waters off Argentina's Patagonian coast, more than a century after relentless hunting drove them to the brink of extinction in ...

A sei whale in front of the distinctive backdrop of Cape Pembroke. Photos: Caroline Weir Acoustic research by wildlife charity, Falklands Conservation (FC), and the non-profit African Aquatic ...

The fisheries ministry has set a kill cap for the season of 52 minke, 150 Bryde's and 25 sei whales. Five Japanese whaling vessels have set sail for the country's first commercial hunt in decades ...

On July 1, Japan announced commercial whaling quotas authorizing the annual slaughter of 25 sei whales, 187 Bryde’s whales, and 171 minke whales. The IWC’s underlying treaty, the International ...

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The meat put on auction on Nov. 14 came from the most coveted “onomi” portion of a sei whale caught off Nemuro in eastern Hokkaido by the Nisshin Maru whaling ship. The whale meat was stored ...

is another global hotspot, with an average of more than 200 stranded whales or dolphins each year. More than 300 sei whales died in remote waters off Patagonia, Chile, in 2015.

In total, 17,072 whales, such as sei and Antarctic minke whales, have been flensed and cut up in the Antarctic Sea, the Northwest Pacific Ocean and waters around Japan. Up until the 1970s when ...

Why are whales dying in record numbers? And is the crisis man made? Biologist Ella Al-Shamahi joins a specialist autopsy into the death of a 40-foot sei whale, washed up near Edinburgh.