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ECNC : Services : Global biodiversity policy instruments : ECNC : The European Centre for Nature Conservation
Aim/comment: To protect whales from overhunting and to regulate the international whale fishery to ensure proper conservation and development of whale stocks. It provides for the creation of international whale sanctuaries. Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention, 1971). Secretariat/focal point: IUCN - Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue ...
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Ocean Alliance - WHALE CONSERVATION INSTITUTE - Conservation
France to the IWC in 1992 and passed 26 May 1994. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary has a high proportion of the world's surviving baleen whales. Alternative research methods A ... -term benign research is able to provide the same data on individuals needed to manage whale stocks that scientific whaling provides. Unlike scientific whaling, however, long-term benign research also documents ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Latest PCCS Whale Disentanglement Reveals Gruesome Example of Entanglement Crisis
The entanglement was relatively simple, with heavy rope wrapped twice around the ... humpback whales are reported to authorities every year; After centuries of hunting, North Atlantic humpback whale stocks began to slowly rebound late in the 20th century. Today, about 12,000 humpback ...
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Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | PCCS Disentangles Humpback Whale East of Plymouth, MA
Donald Clancy aboard St. Andrew, for standing by this animal. The gear recovered from this whale will be used in ongoing studies aimed at modifying fishing gear to prevent entanglements. The whale ... humpback whales are reported to authorities every year; After centuries of hunting, North Atlantic humpback whale stocks began to slowly rebound late in the 20th century. Today, about 12,000 humpback ...
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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 ...
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2007 Meeting in Anchorage
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 positive evidence of increases in abundance for several ...
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The Minke Whale
They swim alone or in small groups of 3-4. Minke whale stocks can also be found further west in the North Atlantic, in the North Pacific and around ... capelin is the main ingredient in the eastern Barents Sea. Whaling Statistics Reliable statistics from the minke whale harvest in the North East Atlantic are available from as far back as 1930. Since then, about ...
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The Minke Whale
Alliance brochure; "LIVING OFF THE SEA, Minke Whaling in the North East Atlantic", February 1994. The Minke Whale The minke whales are the smallest of the baleen whales. They can reach lengths of up to 10 ... are normally between 5 and 8 metres long. They swim alone or in small groups of 3-4. Minke whale stocks can also be found further west in the North Atlantic, in the North Pacific and around the ...
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Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Pacific There is insufficient data to evaluate the current abundance or population trends of blue whale stocks in the western North Pacific, but blue whales in Hawaiian waters are considered extremely ... been reported in this area. A well-documented observation of killer whales attacking a blue whale off Baja California proves that blue whales are at least occasionally vulnerable to these predators ...
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Humpback Whale
Hawaiian Islands to bear and raise their calves. Other North Pacific whale stocks migrate to wintering areas near Japan, Taiwan, Baja California, and Mexico. Measures to protect ... Hemisphere populations. When the U.S. Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, the humpback whale was classified as endangered and, although numbers are slowly increasing, it remains so today. The ...
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