Friday, January 22, 2010

What are the historical reasons for whale hunting?

I need help with my whaling project. Can anyone give me some info or a good website to go on?What are the historical reasons for whale hunting?
there were varied reasons for whaling, depending on who was doing the hunting.


Northern peoples, like the Aleut and Inuit did whale hunting for survival, and used every part of the whale, for food, and whatever else could be done with it.





Other nations hunted whales to use for meat and things like ';whale oil'; for lighting. That was whaling, or the whaling industry. A completely different level, different scale. Beyond mere survival. Here are a few sites to get you started.





http://www.whales.org.au/history/index.h鈥?/a>





http://www.whaling.jp/english/history.ht鈥?/a>





http://www.animalliberation.org.au/whale鈥?/a> this one mentions some of the uses of whales that were hunted--and Japan is the one country that actually used the meat for consumption, (other than northern peoples) according to this site, something I did not know.





http://www.explorenorth.com/library/yafe鈥?/a>What are the historical reasons for whale hunting?
Food, oil and bone for making tools, weapons and ornaments.
Sperm whale oil has very interesting and excellent lubrication properties that weren't duplicated by products available from petroleum distillation until, perhaps, 30 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling
Whaling dates back to at least 6,000 BC. whaling has caused many whales to become endangered. Most reasons whaling was done is because for the meat for food, Skin for clothing, fat for oil, and bones for utensils.
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