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Whaling

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-030392

Hunting whales for commercially valued whale oil, for their flesh as human food and in animal feed and fertilizers, and for baleen. Today, there is a moratorium on most commercial whaling, as all species are either listed as endangered or threatened.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-030392
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesAdapted from NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-030392",
  "term": "Whaling",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Hunting whales for commercially valued whale oil, for their flesh as human food and in animal feed and fertilizers, and for baleen. Today, there is a moratorium on most commercial whaling, as all species are either listed as endangered or threatened.",
  "references": [
    "Adapted from NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/whaling/"
}

Record 30,392 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.