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Whaling in the North Atlantic
At this meeting the Russian Federation presented a request for an annual catch of 5 bowhead whales to meet the needs of the indigenous people of the Chukotski Autonomous region. The ... quota of gray whales, while others urged caution, because of the endangered state of the bowhead stocks. The Russian Federation responded that economic changes experienced throughout the Russian Federation had impacted ...
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STW - Bowhead Whale
Larger congregations of bowheads are found at feeding grounds. Bowhead whales feed on planktonic organisms including copepods, amphipods, euphausiids, and various other crustaceans. They consume ... would wipe out entire herds of whales in one area and move on to other bowhead stocks. In the North Pacific, commercial whaling began in the mid-1800s. Within two decades, ...
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2006 Meeting in St. Kitts & Nevis
Scientific Committee on the status of a number of large whale stocks. New information was received on Antarctic minke whales, North Pacific common minke whales, Southern Hemisphere humpback whales, Southern Hemisphere blue whales and a number of other small stocks of bowhead, right and gray whales. There was some positive evidence of increases in abundance for several ...
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2007 Meeting in Anchorage
Scientific Committee, the Commission renewed the following catch limits for a further 5 years. (1) Bowhead whales of the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas Stock (taken by native people of Alaska and ... Southern Hemisphere humpback whales, Southern Hemisphere blue whales and a number of other small stocks of bowhead, right and gray whales. There was positive evidence of increases in abundance for several ...
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SoundNet - Whaling - A Bloody Business
Secondly, there are exceptions for "aboriginal whaling"; the American Eskimos are still allowed to hunt the bowhead whale and the gray whale, and the Russians are allowed to take 100-200 gray whales ... the whales to establish healthy vibrant populations. (See also ramble on - Badgers and Buttheads and Fish Stocks) Even now Japan and Norway kill over a thousand whales between them every year, and that ...
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To Icelanders, Whales Were a Godsend
Eubalaena glacialis, and the Greenland right or bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, were the main targets of the large pelagic fleet operating form Europe ... advice made by the Scientific Committee of the IWC, one can say that all endangered stocks became protected by the commission.* The Moratorium Issue Although the whale conservation movement had won ...
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IWMC.org - Whales Index
Eugene Lapointe - published by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner The Facts About Whales and Fish Stocks english | franais | espaol The Institute of Cetacean Research (I.C.R.) A Whale of a Tale ... Victoria Times-Colonist article, September 4, 1998 Message to whale-hunt foes Canadian Bowhead Hunt Eastern Canadian Bowhead Whale Legally Taken by Inuit Hunters 09 March 98 Press Release World Council ...
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IWMC.org - Letter to the editor by Seiji Ohsumi - 26 January 2000
Committee has agreed that minke whales in the Antarctic and elsewhere as well as stocks of other species including humpback whales in the North Atlantic, grey whales in the North Eastern Pacific and bowhead whales in the Western Arctic are increasing. Prime Minister Clarks statements about serious decline in whale numbers and that whale numbers were ...
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Proactive Protectionism
But for now, no threatened whale species is being taken (with the possible exception of the bowhead), and no nation has expressed interest in harvesting a threatened species. Furthermore, some biologists have even proposed that harvesting plentiful whale species might actually aid the recovery of others. In other ...
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Marine Connection - General News
Further support for whale sanctuary (Added: 11 April 2008) Following the report on a recent ... NOAA Fisheries Service has released a final environmental impact statement (EIS) proposing continued hunting of bowhead whales in Alaska. Click here for further details Costa Rica takes steps to protect cetaceans ...
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