Sentences with phrase «aboriginal subsistence»

The ban on commercial whaling also does not affect aboriginal subsistence whaling, which is permitted by Denmark, the Russian Federation, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the United States.

Furthermore, those whales may be killed under scientific or aboriginal subsistence permits.

This remains in place although the Commission continues to set catch limits for aboriginal subsistence whaling.

HSI will oppose Japan's proposal for small - vessel coastal whaling, which HSI considers a violation of the 30 - year - old moratorium on commercial whaling, and argue for the highest standard of scientific scrutiny in regard to Denmark's application for an increased whaling quota for Greenland and other aboriginal subsistence whaling proposals being considered at this year's meeting.

International Whaling Commission (IWC) regulations protect western gray whales from commercial and aboriginal subsistence whaling; the range states of the Russian Federation, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China, are members of the IWC (but as noted above, some limited illegal hunting may continue).

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The Russian IWC delegation has said that the hunt is justified under the aboriginal / subsistence exemption, since the fur farms provide a necessary economic base for the region's native population.

This hunt has been allowed under an «aboriginal / subsistence whaling» exception to the commercial - hunting ban.

Opposing Japan's attempts to create a new category of coastal whaling and Greenland's proposal to expand aboriginal (subsistence) whaling, both of which would allow commercial sale of whale meat and similarly threaten to undermine the moratorium.

Whatever might have been the case in 1946, most of the world now believes that whaling should be reserved for very special circumstances — such as subsistence aboriginal whaling.

Subsistence whaling, which the IWC allows for certain aboriginal groups for cultural or nutritional reasons, yields roughly 350 whales per year.

Japan and its allies were successful in a last - minute attempt to get a subsistence whaling quota for Russian and Alaska aboriginal communities.

This was a case dealing with aboriginal rights in which the appellant argued that he was exercising an existing aboriginal right to fish for subsistence and ceremonial purposes.