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  • 6 - The First Whaling Town

  • from Part II - Destroying the Cetosphere, 1850–2019
  • Fynn Holm, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
  • Book:
    The Gods of the Sea
    Published online:
    10 August 2023
    Print publication:
    24 August 2023, pp 128-147
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    Chapter 6 discusses the socio-economic changes the arrival of industrial whaling brought to the fishing community of Ayukawa in northeastern Japan in 1906. While fishermen were first critical of whaling in Ayukawa, they soon accepted the new industrial whaling practices, and the town became the central hub of coastal industrial whaling. It is argued that the local elite played a crucial role in mitigating environmental pollution by buying up whale carcasses that had been thrown away and turning them into whale fertiliser. This not only reduced coastal pollution but also created job opportunities, leading to a mass influx of immigrants from other regions. Soon, the opposing fishermen in Ayukawa found themselves to be a minority in their own village, as the new immigrants had a keen interest in preserving industrial whaling.