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SoundNet - If Adopted, RMS Would Lead Whaling Back to the Dark, Pre-Moratorium Days
IWC member nations. It does not address IWC members that conduct so-called scientific whaling, with self-allocated quotas. It does not prevent IWC members for taking an objection ... in unregulated hunts for centuries. Even after the establishment of the IWC in 1946, commercial whaling was so poorly regulated and unsustainable that it inexorably drove species after species toward extinction. ...
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Ocean Alliance - www.oceanalliance.org
From that data we work with our scientific partners to advise educators and policy makers on wise stewardship of the oceans to: reduce ... purposes. So Japan simply changed the name of what it was doing from 'Commercial Whaling' to 'Scientific Whaling' and the world now has to stand by helplessly, watching Japan kill whales ...
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ENN: Australian navy may track Japan's whaling fleet
Japan in the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Japan's fisheries agency, confident its whaling rights will be confirmed, has challenged any country to take it to the court for a ... than Australia's previous conservative government. Japan has long resisted pressure to stop scientific whaling and says whaling is a cherished cultural tradition. The meat, which under commission rules must be ...
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Whaling in the North Atlantic
Legitimate concerns have been raised about the impact the resumption of commercial whaling would have on Icelands image abroad. However, quantifying this impact is exceedingly difficult, but one ... they suffered the loss of contracts as a result of boycotts organised to protest our scientific whaling in the late 1980s. In addition to organised boycotts, our fish exports could be ...
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Whaling and international law
As is well known, the advice of its Scientific Committee is ignored when it does not satisfy the political preferences of members. In my ... Procedure, the refusals to allow takes of whales in small type coastal whaling, and the recommendations for undertaking scientific whaling. I have done some work on the possibilities of dispute settlement ...
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Japanese Whaling - August 2005
Now! August 2005 Feature Story by Jean-Michel Cousteau Meat from whales harvested through Japans scientific whaling program is sold in the Tokyo Fish Market. Photo credit: Jim Knowlton, Ocean Futures ... Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, dedicated to preservation. The IWC passed a world moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982 because of declining populations and a ban in 1986, but allowed a certain ...
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.S., 24 Other Countries, and European Commission Protest Iceland’s Return to Whaling
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez issued a statement on Iceland’s resumption of commercial whaling, calling the move “disappointing” and that “Iceland is going in the wrong direction on the ... Iceland as a country that is undermining the effectiveness of the whaling convention and the IWC through its scientific whaling. That certification remains active. Minke and fin whales are protected under ...
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ENN: CORRECTED-Anti-whaling activists threaten more action
POLLUTION GREEN BUILDING SCI/TECH LIFESTYLE HEALTH Where am I? > Home > Top Stories > CORRECTED-Anti-whaling activis... Sign Up for Free NewsLetter Email Address Turn Your Desktop Green Download EcoWidget Stay ... seeking to gather photo and video evidence for an international legal challenge against Tokyo's "scientific" whaling. Japan plans to hunt almost 1,000 minke and fin whales for research over ...
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Whaling
According to Australian officials, this is unacceptable. "There is no scientific justification for whales to be killed in order to be ... and feeding patterns in live whales. With a growing global population, we must reign in the whaling industry. We cannot keep harvesting these creatures at such a rate either for food or ...
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2008 International Whaling Commission meeting
These issues include Australia's proposals for conservation management plans, whale sanctuaries, an end to 'scientific' whaling and promoting non-lethal uses of whales such as whale watching. The group will ... also reviewed at the meeting. Southern Hemisphere blue whales, which were subjected to intensive historic whaling, were found to remain at less than 1 per cent of their initial numbers at ...
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