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Histoire de pêche
1975, production : Jean Chabot
Governments tend to follow, not lead, when it comes to...
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Plea for the Wanderer
1975, production : Jean Coutu
Salmon, one of the few fish that migrate between fresh and...
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Plea for the Wanderer
1975, production : Jean Coutu
Humans are responsible for a decline in wild Atlantic...
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Freshwater World
1974, production : Giles Walker
Phosphates from detergents and nitrates from fertilizers...
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In Search of the Bowhead Whale
1974, production : Bill Mason
Academic scientists are showing an increased openness to the...
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In Search of the Bowhead Whale
1974, production : Bill Mason
Hunting bowhead whales was once essential to the survival of...
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Tomorrow Is Too Late
1974, production : Bané Jovanovic, Douglas Kiefer, Don Virgo
Federal fisheries officers monitor the Atlantic lobster...
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Tomorrow Is Too Late
1974, production : Bané Jovanovic, Douglas Kiefer, Don Virgo
This film attempts to show that Environment Canada's...
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In Search of the Bowhead Whale
Excerpt  (3:21) 1974, production : Bill Mason
The film
Hunting bowhead whales was once essential to the survival of the Inuit in the Western Arctic. But by the 1970s, the bowhead was an endangered species, overhunted by commercial whalers. A 2007 ruling by the International Whaling Commission considered both bowhead conservation and traditional Aboriginal practices when it permitted the Inuit to continue hunting a limited number each year.

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An adventure film of a whaling expedition that included Scott McVay, an authority on whales, and filmmaker Bill Mason. The objective was to find and film the bowhead, a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge of extinction by excessive commercial whaling. With helicopter and Inuit guide, aqualungs and underwater cameras, the expedition searches out and meets the bowhead and beluga.