There has been a constant battle, as all who follow the matter know, between the interests of the whalers and those of the conservationists.
At any moment in time, it is difficult to assess how many such pirate whalers are operating.
We have been able to release all minesweeping trawlers, drifters and whalers to be reconverted for fishing.
It has always been dangerous to shipping, to whalers and trawlers.
In the eighteenth century many more explorers visited the islands, followed by whalers and the early missionaries.
A whaler was at once sent away in a gallant effort to save life.
Boas wanted to construct an image of a people who had not yet been contaminated by contact with commercial whalers and missionaries.
Frithjof was used as a tug, towing whales from the whalers out at sea to the station ashore.
