Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet mother ship, the Kangei Maru, which can be anticipated will mean renewed frequent clashes with environmental groups that are also acquiring a new ...

The storied group has a remarkable history of daring protests and high-profile blunders. It faces a reckoning in North Dakota ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale, swimming in the Gulf off the Fort Myers, Florida coast, was captured on video by ...

Converted from a pelagic trawl boat, the factory ship first led a whaling expedition that lasted from 1991 to 1992. It was called a “moving processing factory” because the whales caught by ...

president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony. He said the construction of the Kangei Maru means that offshore, mothership type ...

Activist Paul Watson has revealed a plan to take action against Iceland's whaling activities in June, while continuing to monitor whether Japanese ships return to the Southern Ocean to hunt the marine ...

The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship, the Nisshin Maru. Rather than carving up the carcasses on deck, often in bad weather, the workers will now be able to ...

a campaign that has often involved disruptive attacks on whaling vessels. A French resident, he was apprehended in Greenland ...

The public will have the opportunity to visit an anti-whaling vessel this weekend that has docked in Bermuda. The John Paul Dejoria, a vessel in Neptune’s Navy, has opened its doors to let ...

In an early scene from "Moby-Dick," the crew of the whaling vessel The Pequod get to know their skipper. His name is Captain Ahab, and they are on a dangerous journey to track down the white whale ...