The commission is calling for a global ban on whaling.
委员会要求全球禁止捕鲸。
We have campaigned against whaling for the last 15 years.
我们最近15年一直参加反对捕鲸的运动。
Communities on the island depended on whaling for their livelihood.
岛上的居民靠捕鲸为生。
The convention called for a two-year moratorium on commercial whaling.
会议呼吁两年内暂停商业捕鲸活动。
But early whaling was restricted by primitive tools and whaling techniques.
但早期捕鲸活动受到原始工具和捕鲸技术的限制。
The whaling season typically runs until mid-March.
一般捕鲸的季节要持续到三月中旬。
Commercial whaling was banned worldwide 22 years ago.
商业捕鲸在22年前已在全球禁止。
In another series, activists go up against whaling ships.
另一系列中，积极人士对抗捕鲸船。
Public sentiment on whaling, for and against, is anaemic.
民众在捕鲸问题上的反应，不管是支持还是反对，都并不活跃。
The state whaling company is kept afloat with cheap loans and subsidies.
国有捕鲸公司的存在也仰赖于低息贷款和补贴。
A South Atlantic sanctuary, barred to all whaling, would be rigorously enforced.
一个全面禁止捕鲸的南大西洋自然保护区将会建立并严格保护起来。
New reports of the clash suggested the anti-whaling activists had been to blame.
关于此次撞击事件的最新报道暗示了反对捕鲸的活动人士负有责任。
Japanese whaling was always going to be a major sticking point on the IWC agenda in Madeira.
国际捕鲸委员会在马德拉举行的年会议程中，日本的捕鲸活动一直都是主要的议题。
In those ecosystems heavily impacted by whaling, the populations of smaller species increased.
在这些深受捕鲸影响的生态系统中，规模较小物种的数量有所增加。
Populations of large baleen whales now store only 15 percent of the carbon they had before whaling.
大长须鲸种群现在所储存的碳只有捕鲸前的15%。
Letters sent from the North Pole or remote whaling stations are particularly in vogue at the moment.
目前，从北极点和偏远的捕鲸站发出的实寄封尤其抢手。
Yet it is only recently that we have truly turned from a whaling civilization to a whale-watching one.
但我们真正从一种捕鲸文明转向观鲸文明还是在最近。
But with the 2009 IWC meeting looming, it is worth rehearsing the arguments against scientific whaling.
随着2009年IWC年会的迫近，有必要重新讨论科研捕鲸。
The cull is permissible, Japan says, because it amounts to "scientific" rather than commercial whaling.
日本方面声称捕杀活动是可被容许的，因为这是“科学性质的”捕鲸，而非商业性质。
Photo4: the wreck of the catcher boat Petrel lies stranded at the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken.
图4：捕鲸船Petrel的残骸搁浅在被遗弃的捕鲸站格瑞特·威肯。
Now that the two Sea Shepherd members have been released, the controversial whaling expedition will resume.
现在既然已释放了这两名海洋守护协会的成员，他们引发争议的捕鲸活动将继续进行。
Japan's media broke its tradition of largely ignoring the country's annual "scientific" whaling expeditions.
日本媒体打破以往几乎完全不报道本国每年一度的“科学”捕鲸考察行动的传统。
So the plan might slow the steady creep up in whaling. But it wouldn't halt, or even curtail, the current hunt.
所以这项计划也许可以减缓捕鲸活动稳步增长的态势，但是不能终止，甚至不能减少目前的捕杀量。
In 1982, it adopted a moratorium on whaling, to allow the collapsing populations of various species to recover.
在1982年，它通过了一项捕鲸禁令，来让骤减的各个不同种类的鲸鱼数量得到恢复。
There is, of course, a long-standing history of whaling in Iceland, but the more recent issues date back to 2004.
然，冰岛的捕鲸历史由来已久，但最近的捕鲸活动是从 2004 年开始的。
In more recent decades, much whaling has been stopped, except for a few holdout nations, such as Japan and Norway.
在最近几十年里，大部分的捕鲸活动都已经停止，除了日本和挪威少数国家仍然在持续。
It would reverse the emerging global consensus for whale conservation and inexplicably legitimize commercial whaling.
它将倒转国际间日渐形成的对于鲸鱼保护的共识并难以理解地使商业捕鲸合法化。
It would reverse the emerging global consensus for whale conservation and inexplicably legitimize commercial whaling.
它将倒转国际间日渐形成的对于鲸鱼保护的共识并难以理解地使商业捕鲸合法化。
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