| 11. | Before the 1980s, vast overharvesting by commercial fishermen and whale hunters was turning the waters into dead zones.
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| 12. | Indeed, since the Viking era, Norwegian minke whale hunters have been more conventional fishermen most of the year.
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| 13. | Japan likens the proposed minke quota for coastal whalers to those granted aboriginal whale hunters in places like Alaska and Greenland.
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| 14. | From the Middle Ages until the end of the 19th century, the local fishermen were also whale hunters in winter.
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| 15. | The Norwegian whale hunters will have to follow the quota, which . . . is based on the lower population estimates.
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| 16. | Originally led by the fisherman and whale hunter Steinar Bastesen, its current leader is Bengt Stabrun Johansen ( since 2012 ).
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| 17. | In keeping with tradition, the quotas were announced at a meeting of the Norwegian Whale Hunters Association late Friday in northern Norway.
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| 18. | Norway's whale hunters apparently won't meet this year's higher quota despite getting their hunt extended by a week.
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| 19. | The highest number of whales hunters have been authorized since the hunts resumed was 753 minke in 1999, when they only got 589.
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| 20. | With the new law which prohibits the whale hunters to stab the whales from the boats, this should not take place any more.
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