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In late July, a whaler reported seeing the ships in Baffin Bay.
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
By 1899, Provincetown was home to a small population of New Englanders, who had displaced the Wampanoag and Nauset tribes, and to Portuguese immigrants working as whalers and fishermen.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
An early member of Greenpeace, Watson went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an environmental group famous for tracking, exposing and occasionally ramming Japanese whalers.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 22 July 2024
The original focus—dramatic campaigns against whalers and seal hunters operating under the flags of nations like Japan—is giving way to an emphasis on fisheries protection in cooperation with governments.
—Andrew Blue Sky, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2024
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Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
By 1899, Provincetown was home to a small population of New Englanders, who had displaced the Wampanoag and Nauset tribes, and to Portuguese immigrants working as whalers and fishermen.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
An early member of Greenpeace, Watson went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an environmental group famous for tracking, exposing and occasionally ramming Japanese whalers.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 22 July 2024
The original focus—dramatic campaigns against whalers and seal hunters operating under the flags of nations like Japan—is giving way to an emphasis on fisheries protection in cooperation with governments.
—Andrew Blue Sky, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2024
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“Whaler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whaler. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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