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Timeline of Humpback whaling... 1700 - Early humpback whaling begins. 1844 - Invention of the explosive harpoon. 1904 - Whaling expands to the Antarctic. (ma

• danaris 6y ago
  1985 - Captain Kirk and his crew arrive from 2286 in a captured Klingon Bird of Prey to retrieve a breeding pair of humpback whales to repopulate the species and save Earth from a random probe that wanted to talk to them
  • wsgeek 6y ago
    Made my day :)
• notduncansmith 6y ago
  2010 - still losing roughly 4,000 whales every year to whaling: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baleines.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baleines.png
  • koheripbal 6y ago
    That is a totally different species of whale.
    • notduncansmith 6y ago
      I failed to notice, thanks for pointing that out.