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• Whaling in literature

• Commercial whaling
• Hunting, Whale
• Whale fisheries
• Whale hunting

• Whaling Wives (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953), by Emma Mayhew Whiting and Henry Beetle Hough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Whaleman: A Study of Life and Labor in the Whaling Industry (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928), by Elmo Paul Hohman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whale Hunting With Gun And Camera: A Naturalist's Account of the Modern Shore-Whaling Industry, of Whales and Their Habits, and of Hunting Experiences in Various Parts of the World (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1916), by Roy Chapman Andrews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Year With a Whaler (New York: Outing Pub. Co., 1913), by Walter Noble Burns
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Narrative of the Wreck of the "Favorite" on the Island of Desolation: Detailing the Adventures, Sufferings, and Privations of John Nunn; An Historical Account of the Island, and its Whale and Seal Fisheries (London: W. E. Painter, 1850), by John Nunn, ed. by W. B. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cod and Whale Fisheries: Report of Hon. Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, on the Subject of Cod and Whale Fisheries, Made to the House of Representatives, February 1, 1791; Also, Report of Lorenzo Sabine, Esq., on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas (short Jefferson/State report, and longer Sabine report; 1872), by Lorenzo Sabine and Thomas Jefferson, contrib. by United States Department of State
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gold: A Play in Four Acts (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1920), by Eugene O'Neill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Peter the Whaler, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text)
• Peter Trawl, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• A Modern Telemachus, by Charlotte M. Yonge, illust. by William John Hennessy (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Cruise of the "Cachalot": Round the World After Sperm Whales, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg text)

• Greenlanders, Whales, and Whaling: Sustainability and Self-Determination in the Arctic (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1997), by Richard A. Caulfield (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• Fighting the Whales (London et al.: Blackie and Son, 1915), by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The South Sea Whaler, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The World of Ice (1893), by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Seashore Book: Bob and Betty's Summer With Captain Hawes (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1912), by E. Boyd Smith (page images with commentary at Brooklyn Public Library)

• Cod and Whale Fisheries: Report of Hon. Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, on the Subject of Cod and Whale Fisheries, Made to the House of Representatives, February 1, 1791; Also, Report of Lorenzo Sabine, Esq., on the Principal Fisheries of the American Seas (short Jefferson/State report, and longer Sabine report; 1872), by Lorenzo Sabine and Thomas Jefferson, contrib. by United States Department of State
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Meaning of Moby Dick (New York: Russell and Russell, 1962), by William S. Gleim (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Looting the Seas (digital newsbook edition, c2012), by Center for Public Integrity (PDF at publicintegrity.org)
• Comptes Rendus des Séances du Congrès International des Pêches Réuni à Bergen du 18 au 21 juillet 1898 par la Société Pour l'Encouragement des Pêches Norvégiennes à Bergen (in Norwegian, French, and English; Bergen: J. Grieg, 1899)
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. (9 volumes; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1839-1840), by Humphry Davy, ed. by John Davy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Fish and Shellfish of the Middle Atlantic Coast (Washington: G. P. O., 1945), by Rachel Carson, contrib. by Katherine L. Howe (PDF at unl.edu)

• Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Gerard Heckscher (3 volumes in 1; Albany: The Argus Co., 1909), contrib. by John Gerard Heckscher (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fish Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Message From the President of the United States, in Answer to a Resolution of the Senate, Requesting Information in Regard to the Fisheries on the Coasts of the British Possessions in North America (1852), by United States Department of State, contrib. by Millard Fillmore (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Seascapes of Extinction to Seascapes of Confidence: Territorial Use Rights in Fisheries in Chile: El Quisco and Puerto Oscuro (2008), by Gloria L. Gallardo Fernández (HTML and PDF in Canada)

• Die Dampfhochseefischerei in Geestemünde (in German; Geestemünde: J. H. Henke, 1898), ed. by F. Duge, illust. by H. Giebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Sovereignty of the Sea: An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters; With Special Reference to the Rights of Fishing and the Naval Salute (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1911), by Thomas Wemyss Fulton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Deep Sea and Coast Fisheries of Ireland, With Suggestions for the Working of a Fishing Company (Dublin: J. McGlashan; et al., 1848), by Wallop Brabazon, illust. by William Cooper (multiple formats at Google)

• Appeal of Japanese Fishing People to the World Concerning the Question of Rhee Line (Tokyo: Japan-Korea Fishery Deliberation Headquarters, 1953) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Appeal of Japanese Fishing People to the World Concerning the Question of Rhee Line (Tokyo: Japan-Korea Fishery Deliberation Headquarters, 1953) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rehabilitation and Development of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries In South Korea (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954), by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fish or Cut Bait!: The Case for Individual Transferable Quotas in the Salmon Fishery of British Columbia (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 1997), ed. by Laura Jones and Michael Walker (PDF files with commentary at Fraser Institute)

• Fishes of the Middle West (Washington: G. P. O., 1943), by Rachel Carson (PDF at unl.edu)

• Fishery Bulletin (full serial archives)
• Pacific Fisherman (partial serial archives)

• Fisheries of the Far Eastern Republic (Washington: Special Delegation of the Far Eastern Republic to the United States of America, 1922), by Dalʹnevostochnai︠a︡ Respublika
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Review of the Accomplishments and Plans of the NOAA Coastal Ocean Program (1994), by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Speech of Mr. Hamlin, of Maine, in Defence of the Rights of American Fishermen, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, August 3 and 5, 1852 (Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1852), by Hannibal Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #13; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by James Wharton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Appeal of Japanese Fishing People to the World Concerning the Question of Rhee Line (Tokyo: Japan-Korea Fishery Deliberation Headquarters, 1953) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Menhaden Industry of the Atlantic Coast (Bureau of Fisheries document #811; Washington: GPO, 1915), by Rob Leon Greer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Looting the Seas (digital newsbook edition, c2012), by Center for Public Integrity (PDF at publicintegrity.org)

• Managing Small-Scale Fisheries: Alternative Directions and Methods (2001), by Fikret Berkes, Robin Mahon, Patrick McConney, Richard Pollnac, and Robert Pomeroy (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Die Dampfhochseefischerei in Geestemünde (in German; Geestemünde: J. H. Henke, 1898), ed. by F. Duge, illust. by H. Giebel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.