{"id":50138,"date":"2015-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/depuis-quand-chasse-t-on-le-cachalot\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T19:15:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T19:15:28","slug":"how-long-have-sperm-whales-been-hunted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/how-long-have-sperm-whales-been-hunted\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long have Sperm Whales been Hunted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are sperm whales still hunted? No, not commercially. Nevertheless, a traditional hunt is still practised by residents of the Indonesian island of Lembata and so-called scientific whaling is conducted in Japan which calls for the harvest of ten sperm whales a year in the North Pacific. But sperm whales have been hunted worldwide for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Engravings and skeletal remains reveal that the Norwegians, Inuit and aboriginal Americans were hunting great cetaceans over 1000 years before the Common Era. Narratives relate that Scandinavian peoples were hunting sperm whales in the cold waters off of Iceland in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Indonesian populations have been hunting sperm whales since the 1640s. Hunters there still use traditional methods: they leap into the air and use their strength and weight to harpoon the animal;\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery.com\/tv-shows\/human-planet\/videos\/hunting-a-sperm-whale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discover their technique<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">. Between 30 and 50 sperm whales are harvested annually in Indonesia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Whaling picked up in intensity again after the Second World War. The products of this industry were used for food, machinery, cosmetics and agriculture. Large rorquals in particular were targeted, though as their populations began to fall, sperm whales were increasingly sought. Fast, powerful ships were used. Over 600,000 sperm whales were killed in the industrial whaling of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, which left whale stocks decimated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>about <a href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/discover\/whales-future\/threats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whaling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>about <a href=\"https:\/\/baleinesendirect.org\/en\/discover\/the-species-of-the-st-lawrence\/the-13-species\/sperm-whale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sperm whale<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Des gravures et des ossements t\u00e9moignent que certains peuples chassaient les grands c\u00e9tac\u00e9s plus de 1000 ans av. J.-C. Des populations indon\u00e9siennes chassent le cachalot depuis les ann\u00e9es 1640. La chasse commerciale au cachalot a commenc\u00e9 vers 1740 en Nouvelle-Angleterre. Une chasse risqu\u00e9e mais lucrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whale-qa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Long have Sperm Whales been Hunted? - Baleines en direct<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Des gravures et des ossements t\u00e9moignent que certains peuples chassaient les grands c\u00e9tac\u00e9s plus de 1000 ans av. J.-C. Des populations indon\u00e9siennes chassent le cachalot depuis les ann\u00e9es 1640. La chasse commerciale au cachalot a commenc\u00e9 vers 1740 en Nouvelle-Angleterre. 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