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But in case you thought conservationists have permanently saved the whales from the harpoon gun, you need only take an early morning walk through the acres of stalls inside Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market (the world's largest) to the sales booth of the Kyodo Senpaku Whaling Company. Because of their size, speed, and range, blue whales were not hunted much until the introduction of harpoon guns. Our whalers were literally taking everything that appeared in the sights of their harpoon guns," admitted Sergei Klumov, the head of the "scientific" delegation on the Sovietskaya Rossiya in 1966. |
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harpoon gun - a cannon or similar gun that fires harpoons