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jmdict 1514180 Active (id: 2004749)
捕鯨 [news1,nf06]
ほげい [news1,nf06]
1. [n]
▶ whaling
▶ whale hunting
▶ whale fishing
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2839684 鯨漁【くじらりょう】 1. whaling



History:
2. A 2019-04-24 14:13:34  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
"hunting" is more common too:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?
content=whale+fishing%2Cwhale+hunting&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t
4%3B%2Cwhale%20fishing%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bwhale%20fishing%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BWhale%20Fishing%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BWhale%20fishing%3B%2Cc0%3B%
3BWHALE%20FISHING%3B%2Cc0%3B.t4%3B%2Cwhale%20hunting%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bwhale%20hunting%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BWhale%20Hunting%3B%2Cc0%3B
%3BWhale%20hunting%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BWHALE%20HUNTING%3B%2Cc0
But "whale fishing" should probably be included as well, misnomer or not, as it's still used.
  Diff:
@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+<gloss>whale fishing</gloss>
1. A* 2019-04-24 12:22:39  Nicolas Maia
  Comments:
"Whale fishing" 
is a misnomer, 
since they're 
mammals, not 
fish
  Diff:
@@ -17 +17 @@
-<gloss>whale fishing</gloss>
+<gloss>whale hunting</gloss>

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