Sentences with phrase «subsistence whaling»

See Doubleday, N., «Aboriginal subsistence Whaling: The Right of Inuit to Hunt Whales and Implications for International Environmental Law», (1989) 2 (17) Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 373, p389.

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

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.

Finally, Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling must be managed in a way that balances the needs of indigenous people with the responsibility to ensure that the hunts are sustainable, humane and accountable to the IWC.

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

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).

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

Among the issues these committees were asked to look into this year were the possible dangers of whale watching, the effects of chemical pollution on whales, how the IWC might protect dolphins, porpoises and other small cetaceans, and whether subsistence whaling by indigenous peoples should be subject to scientific management.

The program excluded two subsistence whaling areas near Barrow and Kaktovik from leasing.

Not exact matches

The company has also agreed to start a bowhead - whale - monitoring programme from 1 August, and to suspend drilling in the Beaufort from 25 August until after locals have finished their subsistence hunts.

North Atlantic minke whales number about 72,000, and 550 are caught annually, including for subsistence, as well as for scientific whaling.

Whales depend on these microscopic creatures for subsistence.

Some Alaska Native peoples continue by tradition to hunt bowhead and beluga whales on a subsistence level, with low annual bowhead total quotas set by the International Whaling Commission in conjunction with individual village limits set by the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.

«Just because J.J. is famous and has a transmitter on her back, there is no law to prevent a whaler from putting a harpoon into her and killing her,» said whale expert David Phillips of the San Francisco - based Earth Island Institute, which opposes whaling except in «subsistence» bases involving native peoples.

An oil spill could devastate endangered species like polar bears and bowhead whales, destroy habitat for millions of migratory birds, and jeopardize the subsistence - based Inupiat culture.

Note: Just days after the hearing and the passage of the resolution, the US delegation to the International Whaling Commission, led by William Hogarth, also chair of the Commission, disregarded the resolution and voted in favor of additional whales to be killed by Greenland natives, despite a failure to document a subsistence need.

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.

The Chukchi Sea is also part of the seasonal migration route for Bowhead whales that supports subsistence hunting by local indigenous communities.

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

Huntington's research activities include reviewing the regulation of subsistence hunting in northern Alaska, documenting traditional ecological knowledge of beluga whales and bowhead whales, examining Iñupiat Eskimo and Inuit knowledge and use of sea ice, and assessing the impacts of climate change on Arctic communities and Arctic marine mammals.

The Arctic Ocean's waters are home to whales, walruses, polar bears, and are a rich subsistence area.

An exemption from prohibitions on taking whales is provided under the Convention for Indigenous peoples, who can take whales for traditional subsistence purposes.