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	<description>Whale and dolphin watching tours in Southern &#038; Northern California. Best California Pacific coast whale watching vacations. Whale &#038; dolphin news, links, facts, tour info.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 15:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Study: North Pacific Humpback Whale Population Rises</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 15:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once hunted to the brink of extinction, humpback whales have made a dramatic comeback in the North Pacific Ocean over the past four decades, a new study says.]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmen Harpoon Nantucket Folk Artist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 16:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[He's accused of whale-teeth deals on the black market.]]></description>
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		<title>Whale Revival in the ‘Moby Dick’ Seas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 17:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the earliest days of exploration, mariners in Chile's cool southern waters marveled at the abundance of whales. A Jesuit naturalist wrote of the sea "boiling" with their spouting.


Among 19th century Nantucket boatmen, the island of Mocha was notorious as the stamping grounds of "Mocha Dick," an ill-tempered sperm whale bedecked with harpoons. ]]></description>
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		<title>Delay in Ruling on Endangered Right Whales Criticized</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 16:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An attempt to protect the endangered right whale from being killed by commercial ships has languished for more than a year in part because Vice President Dick Cheney's office and White House economists questioned the conclusions of marine scientists, according to internal documents.]]></description>
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		<title>Narwhals More at Risk to Global Warming than Polar Bears</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.

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		<title>Japan Falls Short of Whaling Target</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Violent clashes with animal rights groups and fewer whale sightings forced Japan's whaling fleet to head home from the Antarctic with only 55 percent of its 985-whale hunting target, the government said Monday.]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand Rescuers Save Beached Whale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rescue workers saved one of two whales stranded on a New Zealand beach but were forced to shoot the other after efforts to guide it back to sea failed, a conservation official said Friday.

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		<title>Animal Planet Sails into Rough Waters with Controversial Series “Whale Wars”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Animal Planet's desire to become less warm and fuzzy means exposure to some unaccustomed issues - such as danger on the high seas and journalistic fairness. A network crew returned to port in Australia last week after tagging along on a mission to interfere with a Japanese whaling expedition in the Antarctic. A miniseries about the experience, "Whale Wars," is expected to air this fall.]]></description>
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		<title>Animal Planet Aims to Get Edgier</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Animal Planet's desire to become less warm and fuzzy means exposure to some unaccustomed issues, like danger on the high seas and journalistic fairness. A network crew returned to port in Australia last week after tagging along on a mission to interfere with a Japanese whaling expedition in the Antarctic. A miniseries about the experience, "Whale Wars," is expected to air this fall.]]></description>
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		<title>Humpback Calves To Goo-Goo Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers working in Hawai'i waters have reported the first confirmed evidence that humpback whale calves produce sounds. The purpose of the grunts and squeals recorded by the Cetos Research Organization has not been deciphered, but they could be alarm calls... ]]></description>
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