Whaling Websites

Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum
www.cshwhalingmuseum.org
Excellence Award winning website on whaling which includes links to several other sites on the subject.
 
Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org
This international organization of activism is still engaged in efforts to protect whales in all the world’s oceans.
 
International Whaling Commission
www.iwcoffice.org
This site covers the history and purpose of IWC, membership, links to reports that are online and for sale, whale population figures among other things.
 
Japan Whaling Association
www.whaling.jp/english
Provides views from a country which supports whaling. Includes Q&A, history of whaling timeline, JWA newsletter, contact information, etc.

Mystic Seaport
www.mysticseaport.org/home.htm
The largest and most comprehensive maritime museum in North America and home of the Charles W. Morgan, one of the last whaling ships of its type. Take tours and engage in many learning activities through Mystic’s website.
 
New Bedford Whaling Museum
www.whalingmuseum.org
The website for anyone interested in the history of whaling as well as conservation issues.
 
Whaling Library
http://luna.pos.to/whale
This site has a lot of information which includes the argument for whaling. Lists several articles written by Japanese authors, where that country and Norway, still carry-on in the whaling industry