• The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is a specialised regional fishery management organisation, established under the terms of the 1946 International...
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    involved in commercial whaling. This continued until the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling went into effect in 1986...
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    killed annually. In 1982, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) decided that there should be a pause on commercial whaling on all whale species from...
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    The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international environmental agreement aimed at the "proper conservation of whale stocks...
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    Aboriginal whaling or indigenous whaling is the hunting of whales by indigenous peoples recognised by either IWC (International Whaling Commission) or the...
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    ongoing moratorium established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986, and that still maintain a whaling fleet. One company (Hvalur hf.) remains...
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    whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling...
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    extinction by whalers until the International Whaling Commission banned all blue whale hunting in 1966. The International Union for Conservation of Nature...
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    the International Whaling Commission. 40: 343–347. Sigurjónsson, J (1982). "Icelandic minke whaling 1914-1980". Reports of the International Whaling Commission...
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    Burmeister, 1867), full specific status – this was followed by the International Whaling Commission a few years later. Other organizations followed suit. Antarctic...
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    Whale (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    term "Great Whales" covers those currently regulated by the International Whaling Commission: the Odontoceti family Physeteridae (sperm whales); and the...
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    and is still practiced using the exception granted by the International Whaling Commission, which allows some subsistence hunting by Native Americans...
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    osteological study and the absence of "conclusive data", the International Whaling Commission decided to consider them only as a regionally distinct group...
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  • countries that still allows whaling. Norway registered an objection to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) commercial whaling moratorium, and is thus...
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  • be) dissatisfied with the international management of cetaceans and other marine mammals by the International Whaling Commission. NAMMCO believes that decisions...
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    Mammalogy, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, and the International Whaling Commission. The North Pacific, North Atlantic and Southern right whales...
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    "Small Cetaceans". International Whaling Commission. 5 May 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2009. "Catch limits". International Whaling Commission. 1 September 2009...
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    "Commercial Whaling". International Whaling Commission. Retrieved 30 January 2016. "Scientific Permit Whaling". International Whaling Commission. Retrieved...
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    Cetacea (section Whaling)
    commercial operations. Although the International Whaling Commission has agreed on putting a halt to commercial whaling, whale hunting is still going on...
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    the Bryde's Whale in the Northwest Pacific". Reports of the International Whaling Commission (Special Issue 1):88-91. Olsen, Ørjan (1913). "On the external...
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    Right whale (section Whaling)
    distinct species, and in 2002, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) accepted Rosenbaum's findings, and recommended that the...
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  • High North Alliance (category Whaling in Denmark)
    Norway's whaling quota, promoting studies into methods of more humane whaling, lobbying the International Whaling Commission into relaxing the whaling moratorium...
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    Institute of Cetacean Research (category Whaling in Japan)
    denounced as commercial whaling in disguise, which is banned by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). In March 2014, the International Court of Justice...
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  • continent of Antarctica where the International Whaling Commission (IWC) has banned all types of commercial whaling. To date, the IWC has designated two...
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    Minke whale (section Whaling)
    International Whaling Commission (1983). "Report of the SubCommittee on minke whales". Report of the International Whaling Commission. 33: 91–122...
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  • have also been imposed by governments, and approved by the International Whaling Commission in emergency situations. However, it has also been criticized...
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    Administration. She was also the U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission. She is currently President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation...
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    consumption as well as for sale, as aboriginal whaling is excluded from the International Whaling Commission 1986 moratorium on hunting. The numbers have...
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    whaling was a major industry in the 19th century, depicted in the novel Moby-Dick. The species is protected by the International Whaling Commission moratorium...
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    Whaling in the Faroe Islands, or grindadráp (from the Faroese terms grindhvalur, meaning pilot whale, and dráp, meaning killing), is a type of drive hunting...
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