Sentences with phrase «endangered fin»

In 2006, the Icelandic government stated it would no longer respect an international ban on commercial whaling; it issued permits for the commercial hunting of nine endangered fin whales and 30 minke whales.

LONDON: A new report today calls for the international community and vested commercial interests to take tough action to end Iceland's ongoing slaughter of endangered fin whales.

In addition to hundreds of Minke whales, the ships slaughter a few dozen endangered Fin whales every year, which inevitably end up in cans on store shelves.

Slayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales has been jointly released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) on the eve of the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portorož, Slovenia.

«The continued slaughter of endangered fin whales and other cetaceans essential for sustainable marine ecosystems represents a shameful deficit in Icelandic government's regulations in the face of such blatant short - term profiteering to the detriment of the long - term future of fish stocks and the marine environment so essential to the nation,» said Paul Thompson, director of the CarbonFix Foundation.

The Winter Bay, chartered by notorious Icelandic whaler Kristján Loftsson, departed Iceland on June 4 carrying an estimated 1,800 metric tons of endangered fin whale products; the vessel docked in Osaka, Japan on August 30.

In subsequent years the annual number of endangered fin whales killed by Icelandic fleets for whale - meat exports to Japan had risen from seven to 148.

Waitrose and Marks & Spencer protested to the Icelandic government over its decision in January 2009 to resume commercial whaling, including a hunt for endangered fin whales.

Ask the Japanese Prime Minister to stop targeting endangered fin whales, and to refrain from hunting endangered humpback whales, both violations of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES).

was launched in the US in 2005, the Government of Japan has authorised a massive expansion of whaling in the Southern Ocean sanctuary, more than doubling the number of minke whales targeted and adding endangered fin and humpback whales to the quotas.

In one example, despite the international trade ban, seven companies on Yahoo! Japan's website were selling endangered fin whale imported from Iceland.

The U.S. and other International Whaling Commission (IWC) member countries have tried for years to persuade Iceland to end its commercial whaling — which includes hunting of the endangered fin whale — as it undermines the effectiveness of IWC's commercial whaling ban.

Iceland killed 273 endangered fin whales in the last two years.

Of particular concern to the United States, Iceland harvested 125 endangered fin whales in 2009 and 148 in 2010, a significant increase from the total of 7 fin whales it commercially harvested between 1987 and 2007.

Just before President Obama visited the Arctic in August, an Icelandic seafood company quietly sent 1,800 tons of frozen meat hacked from slaughtered endangered fin whales through the Arctic to Japan.

On Thursday, President Obama ordered government agencies to ramp up pressure on Iceland to end its slaughter of endangered fin whales, the second largest whale species.

Without such action, Iceland's commercial whaling and its exports of the products of endangered fin whales to Japan will continue, and Hvalur's domination of the Japanese market will grow.

Greenpeace's ship Esperanza is steaming toward the Japanese fleet right now, hoping to get in between their grenade - tipped harpoons and the minke and endangered fin whales that Japan STILL plans to slaughter.

The federally endangered fin whale that died this week on Stinson Beach in front of curious onlookers could turn out to be a boon for scientists looking to glean new information about the species.

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Topics: environment, americas, north carolina, shark attacks, sharks, shark fin soup, endangered species, florida, international shark attack file, florida museum of natural history

A heart on the fin symbolizes the love and support that the endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoise desperately needs.

Worm's lab's analysis of worldwide fishing data reveals that sharks are seriously endangered due to becoming «bycatch,» and for being fished for their fins and for seafood.

One third of shark species is endangered; over 11,000 sharks are caught and killed every hour, mostly for their fins, to make shark fin soup.

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They talked about the still all too prevalent practice of finning, the fascinating and endangered sawfish, hunting contests aimed at cownose rays, and other topics concerning populations of sharks, rays and skates.

In the 61 - page document, the Environmental Defense Center, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and Pacific Environment say a speed limit would help protect endangered blue, humpback and fin whales from being run over by big ships.

These areas contain populations of endangered blue, humpback and fin whales that are federally protected under the Federal Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1538 et seq.), the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and the National Marine Sanctuaries Act (16 U.S.C. 1431endangered blue, humpback and fin whales that are federally protected under the Federal Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1538 et seq.), the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and the National Marine Sanctuaries Act (16 U.S.C. 1431Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1538 et seq.), the Marine Mammal Protection Act (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and the National Marine Sanctuaries Act (16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.).

Endangered humpback, blue, and fin whales are present in their greatest numbers from June through November.

Please note that fins are banned as they can injure the endangered turtles, but we quickly found that they weren't needed.

The Sea of Cortez has more consistently large populations of many different whale species, including the endangered blue and fin whales.

Personally I am against commercial whaling but if you want an impartial view I think the taking of whales should not be allowed under the scientific research provision; instead the ability to take for commercial purposes certain whale species that are doing ok (e.g., minke) should be rediscussed within the IWC (again I am not in favor of this but it would better then killing for scientific research whale species that are endangered [eg, fin, sei whales].

It came amid a growing effort by many countries to limit the trade in endangered shark species and their fins.

While the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the giant — second in size behind blue whales — as endangered, regional populations, including the fin population off Iceland, are healthy.

Given that the president in 2014 publicly castigated Iceland for its continuing slaughter of fin whales despite their international status as an endangered species, it's hard to interpret the shipment as anything other than thumbing the nose at the United States.

The Obama administration has strongly criticized Iceland for resuming international trade in the meat from its expanding hunt for fin whales, the second largest whale species and one still listed as endangered under the United States Endangered Spendangered under the United States Endangered SpEndangered Species Act.

Some marine conservation groups last Friday decried Iceland's final tally of more than 150 whales killed in this year's harvest, including 94 fin whales — the second largest whale and one that is still on some lists of endangered species.

And although populations have increased, the World Conservation Union currently lists the humpback whale and the fin whale as vulnerable and endangered, respectively.

Using the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Obama blocked drilling in large portions of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the Arctic, home to several endangered species, including the bowhead whale, fin whale, Pacific walrus, and polar bear.

The report also confirms that many of the products are from internationally protected great whale species including fin, sei, minke, sperm and Bryde's whale — all of whom are protected under the moratorium on commercial whaling established by the International Whaling Commission in 1986 and have the highest level of protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

Why Sharks Are Endangered — SEEtheWILD Wildlife... Why Sharks Are Endangered Commercial Fishing The biggest threat to sharks, skates, and rays is the overfishing and over-consumption of their meat, fins, and cartilage.

The blue whale, the largest creature ever to have lived on earth, remained «endangered» along with the fin whale and sei whale.

It is also crucial to remember that Iceland's fin whaling operation targets an endangered species and defies the international moratorium on commercial whaling, in addition to flouting a CITES Appendix I listing by trading in whale products.

The fin whale species as a whole was classified as «Endangered» under the IUCN system in 1996 using their 1994 criteria.

Almost three decades later, fin whales remain endangered.

Shark finning is still rampant, shark fin soup is still being consumed on an enormous scale, and endangered sharks are now also being used to make products for human consumption.

Iceland's fin exports to date are worth an estimated US$ 50 million and clearly undermine both the IWC moratorium and the ban on international commercial trade in fin whale products imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

Hammerhead meat has a very low value but the sharks are among the most endangered species because their fins are highly prized for the Asian delicacy shark - fin soup.

Scalloped hammerhead sharks are on the globally Endangered species list, and are often targeted by fishermen for their fins, which attract high prices primarily for the Chinese market.

The Empire State has long taken action to protect other threatened and endangered species such as tigers and elephants, now we're taking action to protect sharks and help end the cruelty of shark finning worldwide.»