This article discusses the largely forgotten anti-whaling protests in Norway and Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century. It shows that fishing communities around the world protested almost simultaneously against the introduction of Norwegian-style industrial whaling, even though the protesting fishermen did not compete for the same marine resources as the whalers. Analysing Norwegian and Japanese fishermen’s knowledge reveals that whales played a crucial part in pre-industrial coastal fishing, as they were partly responsible for bringing fish closer to the shore. The article argues that fishing communities around the world had developed ‘coeval moral ecologies’, believing that the killing and flensing of whales caused environmental pollution, hurting coastal flora and fauna, and thus ultimately diminishing the coastal ecosystem on which the fishing communities depended. Fisheries scientists, politicians, and whalers have, however, downplayed this fishermen’s knowledge by presenting allegedly unbiased scientific data that did not indicate a relationship between whaling and fishing.

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把鱼带到岸边：渔民的知识和挪威和日本的反捕鲸抗议活动，1900-12

本文讨论了 20 世纪初在挪威和日本发生的大部分被遗忘的反捕鲸抗议活动。它表明，世界各地的渔业社区几乎同时抗议引入挪威式工业捕鲸，尽管抗议的渔民没有与捕鲸者争夺相同的海洋资源。分析挪威和日本渔民的知识表明，鲸鱼在工业化前的沿海捕鱼中发挥了至关重要的作用，因为它们部分负责将鱼带到更靠近海岸的地方。文章认为，世界各地的渔业社区已经形成了“同时代的道德生态”，认为捕杀和捕鲸会造成环境污染，伤害沿海动植物，从而最终削弱了渔业社区所依赖的沿海生态系统。然而，渔业科学家、政治家和捕鲸者通过提供据称没有表明捕鲸和捕鱼之间关系的无偏见科学数据，淡化了渔民的知识。