/!\ This documentary show animal get hunted, consequently viewer discretion is advised. This documentary is not made to shock. This Documentary show Chukchi people hunting for their own subsistence. Kujiratori, also known whaling , , occurred in many parts of the world where whales live. The large size of these mammals marine present the advantage of providing large quantities of food, but the hunt is particularly dangerous, except with the assistance of modern technology. The first records of this activity date back to at least 3000. C. Many coastal communities have long been hunted and gathered beached whales for subsistence. The industrial whaling began in the seventeenth century . In the early twentieth century the use of technology and the increased demand for resources exceeded the sustainable limit for the whales, causing a decline in the populations of these. In the 1930s , each year more than 50,000 whales were killed. In 1986 the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned commercial whaling to allow populations of cetaceans to recover. However, they are allowed certain communities continue subsistence hunting, as part of their culture. Furthermore, Article VIII of the Convention that regulates whaling allows hunting for scientific purposes. It was long thought that the origin of this hunt was pre-historic origin but have hard evidence. In fact, several representations Paleolithic (especially in the South-West of France and Spain ) were not immediately recognized as such. The first historical traces are generally accepted documents confirming the hunting of Basques in the eleventh century , and a poem Japanese prior to the tenth century that evokes the capture of cetaceans . These animals swim slowly (which facilitates the prosecution) and their carcasses (unlike those of whales ) naturally float on the surface (which facilitates the recovery and exploitation, hence their frank name). However, in 2004, the hypothesis of prehistoric origin of whaling has regained importance with the identification of rock carvings in South Korea (site Bangudae the edge of the Bay of Ulsan on Sea of Japan ). There are many representations of cetaceans and engravings interpreted as hunting scenes (stab drawn superimposed on a whale silhouette for example). There were identified Eubalaena japonica, or North Pacific whale and perhaps gray whales. All indicates that this practice has disappeared from Korea under the influence of Buddhism , under whose influence Decrees prohibit the killing of living creatures from the sixth century . These factors have led to reinterpret engraved representations from France, Spain and North Europe and the presence of cetacean bones on Palaeolithic sites (many dolphins and porpoises which it was difficult to determine if they came from hunting or carcasses recovery failed). Fishing for cetaceans is criticized over a hundred years before the arrival of the industrial hunting, this is how Bernard Germain de Lacépède predicted a massacre threatening these species, mainly caused by the gains generated by the hunt . "This is how the giants giants fell under his arms; and as his genius is immortal, and that his science is now immortal, because he was able to multiply unlimited copies of his thought, they cease to be victims of their interest when these huge species have ceased exist. In vain they flee before him, his art carries the ends of the earth; they have more asylum in nothingness . » Whaling is from prehistoric times. Initially it was limited to trapping on the coast. Over the centuries, the art of hunting began to improve using small open boats to scare cetaceans noise and bring them to the sea coast. This form of hunting was used with small species such as pilot whales , belugas , narwhals and porpoises In the Middle Ages from the watchtowers of the peoples of the coast of the Bay of Biscay , the sentinels gave the alarm when the whales, escaping the cold waters of the North Sea were coming to these shores. Pinnaces were then prepared with 10 or 15 rowers and a riveting harpoon harpoon into the animal's head, beginning a tough fight until the animal was defeated and was towed to shore. The development of the hunting techniques of modern whales was stimulated in the nineteenth century by increased demand for whale oil. The practice of this hunting experienced a boom with the application of industrial media from the nineteenth century . Auge especially in Europe and Russia. The Russo-Japanese War , which occurred between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, had as its central motif access to resources whaling Sea of Japan (East Sea) and North Pacific.

• published: 01 Mar 2015
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