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。
After escaping from whaling boats 150 years ago, it quickly evolved to triple in size and switched from herbivory to eating flesh.
自150年前从捕鲸船跑出来以后，它很快就进化到三倍大小，由食草变成食肉。
It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean's largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species.
作为海洋中最大的生物，蓝鲸很难追踪，但由于商业捕鲸，它们几乎灭绝，现在已被列为濒危物种。
In 1982, a ban to stop deep-sea whaling was made.
1982年，禁止深海捕鲸的禁令颁布。
It is the whaling stations that are now extinct.
如今，绝迹的是捕鲸站；早已一去不复返的是捕海豹者。
Why Japan's whaling activities are not research?
为什么日本的捕鲸行为不是科学研究？
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。
It's not long til the International Whaling Commission's next meeting.
国际捕鲸委员会会议不久后就要召开。
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。
Countries, such as Australia and New Zealand, that oppose whaling are frustrated.
像澳大利亚，新西兰这些反对捕鲸的国家不禁感到备受打击。
Whaling has grown increasingly unpopular in regions where whale watching is common.
观赏鲸鱼普遍的地区，捕鲸越来越不得人心。
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。
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。
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。
And we urge all countries, especially our friends in Japan, to bring their whaling programs to an end.
我们力劝所有的国家，尤其是我们在日本的朋友们，请停止你们的鲸鱼项目。
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。
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。
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。
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