Sentences with phrase «commercial whale»

Japan decided not to introduce its usual proposal for starting a commercial whale hunt on its coast.

In light of the recent passage of the vessel Winter Bay through Russia's Northern Sea Route (NSR), the organizations are calling on GLACIER delegates and President Obama — who will attend the conference — to ensure that an increasingly ice - free Arctic will not become a thoroughfare for trade in commercial whale products.

The disagreement has its roots in a decision by Iceland to resume commercial whale hunting in 2006.

Here's a related animated map of commercial whale catches from 1900 to 2011.

While a commercial whale - watching vessel idled in the distance, the pod of killer whales soon was milling around the kayaks.

We can approach up to five hundred yards away, a distance granted only with a federal permit and not permitted to commercial whale watchers.

This matters because commercial whaling may be allowed to resume once populations reach 54 per cent of their «historic» levels.

The International Whaling Commission imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, but it allowed the killing of some whales for scientific research.

Palumbi and colleagues used DNA samples in 2003 to estimate that humpback whales could have numbered 1.5 million prior to the onset of commercial whaling in the 1800s.

«The United States therefore will not support a resumption of commercial whaling.»

«We found no support among the American public or the US Congress for resumption of commercial whaling,» said Mike Tillman, the US commissioner.

The data has been used to support calls for the resumption of commercial whaling of Antarctic minkes.

«Commercial whaling in the North Pacific Ocean,» the PNAS paper says, «set off one of the longest and most complex ecological chain reactions ever described.»

TOKYO (Reuters)- An embarrassing court ruling that halted Japan's Antarctic whaling will actually help Tokyo take whales in the name of science, a top whaling official said just a day after the prime minister vowed to press for commercial whaling.

«We will carry out surveys on whales with the aim of reviving commercial whaling,» Abe said.

Though Japan abandoned its Antarctic hunt for this year, it immediately vowed to retool its research program with an eye to resuming it as early as the 2015 - 2016 season, and eventually to resume commercial whaling as well.

Commercial whaling during the 20th century killed some 22,000 animals annually, causing severe declines in almost all large whale species before most nations stopped whaling in 1986.

Before receiving international protection in 1966, humpback whales were targeted by commercial whaling vessels that nearly drove the species into extinction.

Japan joined an international moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, but continued with «scientific» whaling programs that it claimed were exempt from the agreement.

IWC enacted the ban in 1986 after commercial whaling drove many whale populations to the brink of extinction.

Scientists have greatly underestimated the historical carnage caused by commercial whaling, according to a study published in July.

The new estimates suggest that proposals to lift the International Whaling Commission's 18 - year - old moratorium on commercial whaling are based on a faulty assessment of what constitutes natural population sizes.

US law allows the restriction of imports from countries that «undermine» international conservation agreements such as the ban on commercial whaling.

«The reduction of whale carcasses during the age of commercial whaling may have caused some of the earliest human - caused extinctions in the ocean,» writes the study's first author, conservation biologist Joe Roman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, in an e-mail.

To make the discovery, announced in May, researchers led by Nicholas Pyenson of the Smithsonian Institution collected tissue samples from whale carcasses during a legal commercial whaling operation in Iceland.

Under that line of reasoning, some have argued in favor of the continuation of commercial whaling.

The US was among the member countries of the IWC which signed a resolution in Kyoto earlier this year «regretting» Norway's announcement that it would resume commercial whaling (This Week, 22 May).

US President Bill Clinton has decided not to impose trade sanctions on Norway, despite Norway's resumption of commercial whaling this year.

Ron Brown, the US Secretary of Commerce, has told President Bill Clinton that Norway's decision to resume commercial whaling this year undermines the International Whaling Commission's attempts to conserve whales.

In 1966, at the end of the commercial whaling era, humpback whales in the North Pacific numbered only 1400.

There has been an international moratorium on commercial whaling since 1985, but Japan relies on a clause that allows whales to be taken for research to catch hundreds of minke and smaller numbers of other species each year.

Growing to nearly 60 feet in length, the North Atlantic right whale was one of the first targets of the world's commercial whaling industry and was rapidly wiped out from the animal's coastal habitats in the Atlantic before whalers moved onto other species.

Whaling opponents claim such data or close proxies can be gathered through nonlethal means and that Japan's research program is commercial whaling under another name.

Japan's whaling proponents say there are no good scientific reasons for a blanket ban on commercial whaling.

In response to declining numbers of certain whale species, IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.

There has been an international moratorium on commercial whaling since 1985.

Critics contend that this research is commercial whaling in disguise as the meat ends up in Japanese restaurants and supermarkets.

Critics have long claimed that Japan's research program is a fig leaf to sidestep the IWC's 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling.

Once abundant, blue whales were hunted to just 500 individuals before a ban on commercial whaling came in during the 1960s.

On the international level, the International Whaling Commission manages the global moratorium on commercial whaling, which is essential to maintain the humpback whales» successful recovery.

The commercial whaling boats recorded sea ice and weather data in more than 400 logbooks from voyages dating as far back as the 1840s, with most taking place from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s.

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Commercial whaling ended worldwide in the 1980s.

Following the prohibition of commercial whaling, this population rebounded and now likely numbers more than 10,000 whales.

An international ban on commercial whaling was instituted in 1964 and the whale population has since rebounded.

Commercial whaling decimated many whale populations, including the eastern Pacific gray whale, but little is known about how population dynamics or ecology differed prior to these removals.

Commercial whaling by Europeans of the species in the North Pacific began in the winter of 1845 — 46, when two United States ships, the Hibernia and the United States, under Captains Smith and Stevens, caught 32 in Magdalena Bay.

Although commercial whaling has largely been banned in the Pacific, the International Whaling Commission allows sea hunting by aboriginal peoples whose economic and cultural survival is at stake.

WWF also works to end commercial whaling, which is conducted by countries such as Japan and Iceland in violation of a ban by the International Whaling Commission.

Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) The second largest living mammal, «finbacks» have been severely impacted by commercial whaling.