Part of it is to protect whales, but the other part is to protect and promote a sustainable whaling industry.

其一，该组织要保护鲸鱼，其二，要保护并推广可持续的捕鲸业。

They eventually got help from people working in the whaling industry far off the coast of the southern part of Argentina.

他们最终从离阿根廷南部海岸很远的从事捕鲸业的人那里得到了帮助。

The damage was done by the modern whaling industry.

现代捕鲸业造成了损害。

But the greatest damage was not actually done by the 19th-century American whaling industry.

但最大的损害实际上并不是由 19 世纪的美国捕鲸业造成的。

That was kind of like the origin story that inspired " Moby Dick" all about just kind of like the whaling industry.

它有点像《白鲸记》，故事的灵感都是关于捕鲸业的。

The greatest damage wasn't done by the massive American whaling industry we've been talking about?

最大的损害不是我们一直在谈论的庞大的美国捕鲸业造成的吗？

He published " Moby Dick" in 1851, when the United States' whaling industry was at its height.

他在 1851 年出版了《白鲸记》，当时美国的捕鲸业正处于鼎盛时期。

But the whaling industry spread well beyond Nantucket.

但捕鲸业的蔓延远远超出了楠塔基特岛。

The international agency, based in Britain, was set up to provide for the protection of whales and the orderly development of the whaling industry.

这一设立在英国的国际机构是为了保护鲸鱼和推进捕鲸业有序发展。

The whaling industry on Nantucket was everything.

楠塔基特岛的捕鲸业就是一切。

Coming up: how, exactly, did the scrappy little American whaling industry come to dominate the sector?

下一篇： 斗志旺盛的小型美国捕鲸业究竟是如何成为该行业的主导地位的？

Philbrick's book draws a picture of Nantucket as the undisputed capital of America's early whaling industry.

菲尔布里克的书中描绘了楠塔基特岛作为美国早期捕鲸业无可争议的首都的形象。

Investment dollars also stopped flowing to the whaling industry.

投资资金也停止流向捕鲸业。

So the modern whaling industry killed probably four or five times as many whales as the 19th-century Americans, since they're using much more efficient methods.

因此，现代捕鲸业捕杀的鲸鱼数量可能是 19 世纪美国人的四到五倍，因为他们使用了更有效的方法。

It really isn't hard to draw parallels between the startup culture in Silicon Valley and the 19th-century whaling industry.

确实不难将硅谷的创业文化与 19 世纪的捕鲸业进行类比。

Well, as Eric Hilt learned in his research, as the whaling industry grew, more investors wanted in, and ownership became less concentrated.

正如埃里克·希尔特（Eric Hilt）在他的研究中了解到的那样，随着捕鲸业的发展，更多的投资者想要加入，所有权也变得不那么集中。

The American whaling industry had been a dynamo from pre-Revolutionary days up through the mid-19th century.

从革命前到 19 世纪中叶，美国捕鲸业一直是一个充满活力的行业。

Whaling was practiced in Europe — Britain, for example, had a decently sized whaling industry that went into the North Atlantic Ocean.

捕鲸业在欧洲盛行——例如，英国就有规模相当大的捕鲸业，进入北大西洋。

But by the late 19th century, the American whaling industry collapsed.

但到了 19 世纪末，美国捕鲸业崩溃了。

Do you have any idea what share of G.D.P. the whaling industry may have represented at its peak?

你知道占 GDP 的比重是多少吗？捕鲸业可能已经达到顶峰？