"Through the mid-nineteenth century, the United States whaling industry drove industrialization and urbanization, offering ways to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's...

Japan's fish production volume in 2008 was 5.59million tons, it accounted for 4% of world's production and consisted of catch (4.40million tons) and aquaculture (1.19 million tons). For the far sea fishery, its' fishing grounds are in domestic and foreign countries' exclusive economic zone and...