1.   Greenpeace has in the past campaigned against the Faroese whale hunt, drawing vehement criticism from the islanders.

2.   After the Monaco commission meeting, U.S. negotiators publicly declared that the IWC had approved a Makah whale hunt.

3.   Decades have passed since the last whale hunt off remote Cape Flattery.

4.   Even with a rifle, however, a whale hunt is something to be anxious about.

5.   For the Native American Makah tribe, getting the green light for their first whale hunt in two generations was the easy part.

6.   For the Makah, the idea behind the whale hunt was simple.

7.   He notes that the Inuit whale hunt in Alaska was presented to the IWC as primarily cultural and its approval did not open the floodgates of indigenous whaling.

8.   It is hoped that the intense physical and mental discipline of the whale hunt and a resurgence of traditional spiritual values will reduce such crime.

9.   Japan maintains that its whale hunts are for scientific research, although the whale meat is sold to restaurants.