You know, I did not go to Google. I just did a YouTube search, but I will certainly follow that suggestion. I have gotten so smitten with YouTube that I sometimes forget that there are other ways of getting music on the web.

Thanks!

Mr. Keilholtz: I assume you've hit Google on this topic. Just in case we used different search terms, though, here's an article from a Scottish magazine. I know, I know; nevertheless, it's fairly well written, and while it originates in a (however nominally) Calvinist nation, at least it is not, strictly speaking, Englisch. You might find it worth reading:

"Songs of the Greenland Whaling Heroes" .

I must admit having gotten a kick out of one semicoherent, semimystical nastygram in the comments section, taking the author to task for calling whalers heroes. (Which I think is an overused word in general, but that's an entirely different topic.)

Anyhow, the first "whaling song" that came to mind was "Rolling Down to Old Maui", popularized by the late Stan Rogers. Granted the whale fishery is more the setting than the plot, it's still a fun ditty, even--some would say especially--if accompanied by a barroom full of not-quite-sober not-quite-singers. There are four YouTube covers of it; unfortunately I didn't like any of them well enough to include a link in this comment. (Note to my fellow sorta-folkies: Sloppiness is not pronounced "authenticity".)

You must have come across multiple copies/versions of Greenland Whale Fisheries and Farewell to Tarwaithe, so I won't throw links at you for those.

By the way, my day job sometimes involves using passive sonar to locate whales. As you've clearly discovered, whenever marine mammals are even peripherally involved in a human activity the resulting politics can become insane in almost a clinical sense.