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MARC recordThe Faroese whaling / Dorete Bloch.
| Title: | The Faroese whaling / Dorete Bloch. |
| Author(s): | Bloch, Dorete. |
| Date: | 2006. |
| Publisher: | Sandefjord: Sandfjordmuseene |
| In: | Whaling and history II : new perspectives. (2006.), |
| Abstract: | Account of history of Faroese whaling from 16th century. Notes that hunting of long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) is drive fishery where entire schools sighted in vicinity of islands (from land or from boat) are driven ashore by small fishing boats and dispatched on beach; also that hunt remains communal and non-commercial in character. |
| Notes: | In: Whaling and history II : new perspectives / Jan Erik Ringstad, ed. |
| Keywords: | 599(26) -- Sea mammals. 599.5 -- Cetacea. 639.2 -- Fisheries. 639.245.1 -- Whaling industry: Faroese. 93"15/19" -- Sixteenth to twentieth centuries A.D. N -- Renewable resources. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
| SPRI record no.: | 179136 |
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