Assertion: humpback whale | /r/HasProperty | targeted by whaler
Facets:
value: before fins
type: TEMPORAL
value: before the faster blues
type: TEMPORAL
value: before the advent of faster ships
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Slower swimming than most of the more streamlined great whales and frequenting coastal waters in predictable breeding and feeding areas, humpbacks were targeted by whalers before the advent of faster ships made pursuing blue whales and other fast deep-water swimmers feasible.
text: Because they were slow and fat, humpback whales were targeted by whalers well before the faster blues and fins, and were killed by open boat whalers with hand harpoons in the 19th century.