Sentences with phrase «whale hunting quota»

The government of Norway announced on April 1st, perhaps hoping the unseemly news would be lost amid the fictitious headlines of the day, that the country's whale hunting quota would be raised to the highest level in 25 years: 1286 whales can be killed this season.

Still, the raised quota represents an increase of 45 percent over last year's, even overtaking Japan's lofty whale hunting allowance.Demand For Whale is Down, And the Quota is Up According to a report from EcoAgência, folks from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), aren't quite sure why Norway would increase their self - imposed whale hunting quota to 1286 this year when last year's quota of 885 whales wasn't even close to being met by Norwegian hunters.

Not exact matches

«The hunting of large whales is managed by the International Whaling Commission,» added Baker, who works out of OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Ore. «But there is no international or inter-governmental organization to set quotas or provide management advice for hunting small cetaceans.

NORWAY faces strong condemnation from the International Whaling Commission again this year, as its whalers continue their commercial hunt in the face of a world moratorium and in the absence of any reliable way of determining «safe» catch quotas.

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.

While the ICRW includes definitions of some odontocetes and includes references to toothed whales in its schedule (the binding rules and definitions that implement the ICRW), the IWC has concentrated its management on the great whales, setting quotas and other restrictions on hunting.

Japan was prepared to curtail the hunt from its current annual maximum quota of 935 minke whales and 50 fins down to a few hundred minkes - perhaps 200 in 10 years» time - and to five fins, which many believed could easily be negotiated away.

Now on what essentially is a whale - hunting «break,» Iceland says that it will not issue whale - hunting quotas until market demand increases or it manages to get its tenterhooks on a license to export whale products to Japan, one of the largest markets for whale meat (aka The Jackpot).

Today they're hunted by Iceland, Norway and Japan, whose annual quota is now 935 whales.

Whilst the Japanese are allowed by the International Whaling Commission to hunt for an annual quota of 945 whales for scientific purposes there has been intense global pressure to prevent the whalers from being able to fill their quota.