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Whaling is the hunting of whales primarily for meat, oil, blubber, and scientific research. Its earliest forms date to at least circa 3000 BC. Various coastal communities have long histories of subsistence whaling and harvesting beached whales. Industrial whaling emerged with organized fleets in the 17th century; competitive national whaling industries in the 18th and 19th centuries; and the introduction of factory ships along with the concept of whale harvesting in the first half of the 20th century. By the late 1930s, more than 50,000 whales were killed annually In 1986, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned commercial whaling in order to increase the whale stock. Contemporary whaling is subject to intense debate. Pro-whaling countries, notably Japan, Norway, and Iceland, wish to lift the ban on certain whale stocks for hunting.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Japan, Norway Move to End Whaling Ban )〕 Anti-whaling countries and environmental groups oppose lifting the ban. While the debate still goes on whether or not whaling should be illegal, many environmentalists say that unless it is stopped, whales could go extinct in the near future.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Whales - Saving the Whales )〕 ==History of whaling== (詳細はcoastal waters. Early whaling affected the development of widely disparate culturessuch as Norway and Japan.〔 Matera, Anthony. ("Whale quotas: A market-based solution to the whaling controversy" ), ''Georgetown International Environmental Law Review''. Fall 2000.〕 The Basques were the first to catch whales commercially, and dominated the trade for five centuries, spreading to the far corners of the North Atlantic and even reaching the South Atlantic. Although prehistoric hunting and gathering is generally considered to have had little ecological impact, early whaling in the Arctic may have altered freshwater ecology. The development of modern whaling techniques was spurred in the 19th century by the increase in demand for whale oil,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=From Old Dartmouth to New Bedford, Whaling Metropolis of the World Whaling should be stopped! )〕 sometimes known as "Train Oil" and in the 20th century by a demand for margarine and later meat. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Whaling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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