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The delegates approved an initiative calling on member countries to pass laws banning the live capture of whales and dolphins for commercial purposes — the first time that an international body has demanded that this practice cease.

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.

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

Some groups have called for commercial ships to slow to 10 knots in areas with an abundance of whales, based on scientific evidence that slower - speed collisions are less likely to be fatal to the whales.

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.

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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.

Despite a moratorium on commercial whaling and a ban on international trade of whale products, countries such as Iceland continue to hunt whales for their markets.

Australia's Donna Petrachenko delivered a succinct rejection, underscoring that for many nations the Japanese proposal was plainly a request for an exemption to the moratorium on commercial whaling.

While interpretations of the proposal and its potential outcomes may vary slightly, on its face it will for all intents and purposes lift the commercial whaling moratorium for ten years, putting the great whales at the insufficient mercies of a few countries.

Today, six decades after the IWC formed, and a quarter century after its adoption of the moratorium, it is not only legally valid, but abundantly justified by current environmental circumstances, for the IWC to place greater emphasis on conservation rather than maintaining a commercial whaling industry which has so thoroughly run aground in terms of its acceptability to the global community.

The moratorium on commercial whaling has been in effect for nearly a quarter century.

HSI's delegation to the 64th annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission, held in Panama City, Panama, was hopeful agreements on stronger protection for whales could be achieved despite ongoing efforts by whaling nations to upend the commercial whaling moraWhaling Commission, held in Panama City, Panama, was hopeful agreements on stronger protection for whales could be achieved despite ongoing efforts by whaling nations to upend the commercial whaling morawhaling nations to upend the commercial whaling morawhaling moratorium.

To ensure that this issue continues to receive the highest level of attention, I direct: (1) relevant U.S. delegations attending meetings with Icelandic officials and senior Administration officials visiting Iceland to raise U.S. concerns regarding commercial whaling by Icelandic companies and seek ways to halt such action; (2) Cabinet secretaries to evaluate the appropriateness of visits to Iceland depending on continuation of the current suspension of fin whaling; (3) the Department of State to examine Arctic cooperation projects, and where appropriate, link U.S. cooperation to the Icelandic government changing its whaling policy and abiding by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (4) the Departments of Commerce and State to consult with other international actors on efforts to end Icelandic commercial whaling and have Iceland abide by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling; (5) the Department of State to inform the Government of Iceland that the United States will continue to monitor the activities of Icelandic companies that engage in commercial whaling; and (6) relevant U.S. agencies to continue to examine other options for responding to continued whaling by Iceland.

President Barack Obama informed Congress on September 15 of his decision not to apply trade measures to Iceland for commercial whaling in defiance of the IWC ban on such activity.

Japan has been violating the ban on commercial whaling since it first went into effect in 1986 — by using a loophole in the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling that allows countries to kill whales for scientific puwhaling since it first went into effect in 1986 — by using a loophole in the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling that allows countries to kill whales for scientific puWhaling that allows countries to kill whales for scientific purposes.

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.

Fin whales — the second largest creature on the planet, after blue whales — were for decades the target of industrial - scale commercial whaling, an unbridled slaughter curtailed in 1986 by the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling.

This does not apply, however, in case of the so - called moratorium on whaling for commercial purposes, contained in paragraph 10 (e) of the Schedule not being lifted within a reasonable time after the completion of the RMS.

The Pelly Amendment authorizes the president to impose trade sanctions against another country for «diminishing the effectiveness» of conservation agreements: In Iceland's case, the International Whaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prWhaling Commission, which bans commercial whaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale prwhaling, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which prohibits international commercial trade in whale products.

Under an exemption to the international ban on commercial whaling, Greenland can hunt whales for local consumption.

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.

But, unlike Japan who kills whales under the pretext of «scientific research» (a loophole in the international moratorium on whaling), Norway openly hunts for commercial purposes despite the illegality of it.

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

They are the World the World Trade Organization's ruling upholding the EU law banning seal products, and the decision of the International Court of Justice that Japan's Antarctic whale hunt is not exempt from the international moratorium on commercial whaling because it does not qualify for the scientific research exemption under international whaling law.