Because they want to make money for the bones and meat.
It depends on the kind of whale.
The blue what doesn't exactly hunt. It just takes water into its mouth and filters it (by means of filters called baleens).
A blue whale will spin franticly to get the attacker off it, after it is free it will either swim away or ram the attacker against a rock wall or the ocean ground to kill it.
They do not hunt at any particular time they hunt whenever.
nothing really hunts the blue whale the only organism to really do damage to the blue whale is humans from when we use to hunt them for their oil but that was stopped 5 decades ago.
The blue whale is a baleen whale.
Yes, the Inuit tribe has a long history of whaling. Currently they are only allowed to hunt bowhead whales within a certain quota.
Blue Whale
The blue whale. Technically the whale shark isn't acually a whale, but in fact the worlds largest fish (shark). The blue whale, also happens to be the largest animal (mammal) on the planet.The blue whale is nearly twice the size of the whale shark, to 90 feet or more.
A Blue Whale is a mammal
The blue whale. It is the biggest animal on Earth.