Sentences with phrase «commercial whaling program»

Similarly, Norway was convinced to end its commercial whaling program in 1991 after the United States threatened to use the Pelly Amendment.

We're optimistic that the new Icelandic government may be reassessing its commercial whaling program.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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

It appears that, for now at least, Watson is able to shift from his longstanding prime target — the Japanese fleet harpooning in Antarctic waters under a program described as research but widely criticized as an end run around a moratorium on commercial whaling.

But how you defend the Japanese practice of hypocritically lying about their commercial whaling operations to supply their restaurants with whale and dolphin meat with their ridiculous Whale Research Program is unbelievwhale and dolphin meat with their ridiculous Whale Research Program is unbelievWhale Research Program is unbelievable.

Iceland's increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC's conservation program because: (1) Iceland's commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland's harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC.

However, the only direct evidence of population structure in the Antarctic blue whale has come from the «Discovery» marking program during the commercial whaling era.

While we can all agree that Japan's scientific research program - under which it claims the prerogative to hunt 1,000 or so whales every year - is merely a front for a commercial whaling enterprise, we shouldn't have to resort to the type of vicious tactics employed by Watson and his crew to block its activities.