Among those pushing for a full ban is Valgerður Árnadóttir, a longtime activist and spokesperson with anti-whaling organisation Hvalavinir. She says that aside from her moral objections, whaling is not profitable and harms Iceland’s international reputation as well as its tourism and film industries. Leahy, Sean (September 27, 2018). "Hurricanes to wear Hartford Whalers jerseys twice this season". NBC Sports. As always I want to start by saying that I was given an ARC of this to review. My review is honest and left voluntarily. Thank you to The Head of Zeus and Netgalley for giving me access to this.

McLaughlin, W.R.D. (1962). Call to the South: A story of British whaling in the Antarctic. London: George G. Harrap & Co. The trades that Johnston made, particularly the Ron Francis trade, proved to be disastrous for the Whalers, since the players acquired did not meet the team's expectations, leaving the Whalers depleted of talent and costing them substantial goodwill in Hartford. The links below show all of the trades and transactions Ed Johnston made as the general manager of the Whalers. On January 11, 1975, the team played its first game at the Hartford Civic Center in front of a sellout crowd. The franchise remained in Hartford until it relocated to North Carolina for the 1997–98 season, save for a temporary relocation to the nearby Springfield Civic Center in the late 1970s while their Hartford arena was being rebuilt after heavy snow followed by heavy rain caused the roof, which suffered from several engineering and construction shortcomings, to collapse. [3]A.M. Barrigan, Bernard Stonehouse & Robb Robinson, "A newly discovered Arctic whaling journal," The Mariner's Mirror, 94 (3) April 2008, p.331.

From killers to conservationists, the story of three generations of the Petersen family, their history as whale hunters and later their mission to save the great whales and our planet. In 1997, the Whalers franchise relocated to North Carolina, where they became the Carolina Hurricanes. Eco-activist Abi, descended from whalers, helps to organise a global protest, and, with the help of her AI computer, Moonlight, she listens to and decodes whale songs. Already, the conditions in the seas are such that the whales are becoming fewer and fewer…When we meet her 30 years later, living on an isolated island with her daughter Tonje as the world's ecosystems collapse all around them, the search for whale song yields only silence. Are there any whales left? Can the damage humankind has done to the planet ever be repaired? Gretz, Adam (July 22, 2013). "Lost Franchises: Remembering the NHL's Hartford Whalers". CBS Sports.com . Retrieved April 7, 2022.A multi-generational story that carries a key message about our environment, the impact of humankind and how there is still hope for the future, that even in the depths of despair, hope and possibility are there. Loftsson’s home country of Iceland is one of the only countries in the world that defies the International Whaling Commission’s ban on commercial whaling, along with Japan and Norway. However, in Norway, the other European outlier, they hunt the minke whale, the populations of which are considered stable. Clayton, Jane (2014). Ships employed in the South Sea Fishery from Britain: 1775-1815. Chania, Greece: Jane M. Clayton. ISBN 9781908616524 [ self-published source?]

Barrow, Tony (2001). The whaling trade of North-West England. Sunderland: University of Sunderland Press. ISBN 1873757832 Stefán Úlfarsson, chef and owner of Reykjavík’s Þrír Frakkar restaurant, which serves Icelandic specialities such as puffin, whale meat and salmon. Photograph: Sigga Ella/GuardianHartford, Connecticut, wanted professional sports in the worst way. The city was building the Hartford Civic Center in hopes of landing an American Basketball Association franchise but came up short.