 Eventually, the "Vladivostok" stopped whaling in 1978, a year after its confrontation with Greenpeace.The beleaguered "Dalniy Vostok" fleet was forced to stop whaling in 1979 due to a ban on all factory-ship whaling except for minke whales in the Antarctic; after it violated an order that same year banning factory whaling of sperm whales worldwide, the "Sovetskaya Rossiya" fleet (which killed over 150 sperms in the Antarctic in its last season in 1979–80) stopped whaling in 1980, leaving only "Sovetskaya Ukraina" in service.Despite desperate efforts to keep this ageing fleet in service, and despite attempts by the Soviet government to preserve the industry by voting against and objecting to the 1982 ban on commercial whaling, the industry was already doomed.