The whaling industry was wildly profitable, and decimated whale populations around the world until it was banned in the 1980s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given our local history, it's not hard to imagine one of the old whaling ships driving hard through the South Pacific. Since we ...

A small boat from the Sea Shepherd vessel, Steve Irwin, makes a reconnaissance trip past the Japanese whaling ship the Shonan Maru #2 near Freemantle in this handout picture released to Reuters on ...

Portuguese Captain John T. Gonsalves commanded the legendary whaling ship the Charles W. Morgan on its last whaling voyage out of New Bedford in 1920, but an encounter with a German U-boat during ...

(AP) An activist group says a Japanese whaling boat has collided with two anti-whaling ships and a refueling boat near Antarctica. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson says he was ...

A conservation group's boat had its bow sheared off and was taking on water Wednesday after it was struck by a Japanese whaling ship in the frigid waters off Antarctica, the group said. The boat's six ...

A big boost in a deduction for some whalers’ expenses would benefit subsistence hunters. There’s a surprising winner in the latest draft of Senate Republicans’ domestic policy megabill: whaling boat ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Anti-whaling protest group Sea Shepherd said a Japanese whaling vessel "intentionally rammed" one of its protest boats on Saturday during a standoff in Antarctic waters. The harpoon ...