For conservationists, it has come to represent everything that is wrong with the modern whale hunt: mechanized slaughter on a vast scale.

NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

Most of the crew had joined with the hope of going to Iceland, which now appeared to be suspending its planned whale hunt.

NEWYORKER: Neptune��s Navy

As the whale-hunt began, he and his people showed up with their flagship and a smaller boat painted to resemble a killer whale, so as to scare the grey whales away.

ECONOMIST: To catch a whale

But since finding whale sharks is more luck than science, these excursions have the look of an expensive snipe hunt.

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