Whaling is the organized pursuit, capture, and killing of cetaceans (primarily baleen and toothed whales) for their biological products, including meat, blubber, and oil, and is analyzed across ecological, regulatory, and socio-economic research domains. As a topic, it encompasses industrial extraction technologies, population-level impacts on whale stocks, trophic and biogeochemical consequences of reduced cetacean biomass, and the development and enforcement of international management regimes such as moratoria and quota systems. Research on whaling further addresses monitoring methodologies (e.g., population modeling, genetic stock identification) and evaluates compliance, conservation outcomes, and transitions toward non-lethal use such as whale watching.
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