Sentences with phrase «whale stocks for»

In 1986 a moratorium was declared on the hunting of great whales, instituted and overseen by the International Whaling Commission — a body originally convened to ensure the conservation of whale stocks for further exploitation.

When the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was negotiated more than 60 years ago, the main aim was to sustain whale stocks for their only economic value at the time — as a source of oil and meat.

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The little blue whales standard carrier you have in stock would be so cute for my little new squish!

In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, researchers argued that reducing certain whale populations would aid stocks of krill, a ubiquitous crustacean in the Southern Ocean that is a key food source for baleen whales and other marine species.

The findings also support recommendations for the recognition and inclusion of subpopulations (such as the substocks in Breeding Stock C in the Madagascar / Southwestern Africa region of the Indian Ocean) in management decisions for humpback whales in the Southern Hemisphere.

The samples were then analyzed with a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), used to amplify specific nuclear «microsatellites» for statistically measuring gene flow between the different populations and subpopulations located in the western South Atlantic (Breeding Stock A) and the eastern South Atlantic and Indian Ocean populations (Breeding Stocks B and C, and the Arabian Sea humpback whale population, respectively).

The Whale Coast Hotel is located directly above a shopping centre which has a Checkers grocery store that is open until 20h00 and ideal if you need to pop to the shops to stock up for your trip — we decided to eat out because we were all feeling too lazy to cook.

Japan contends that whales are depleting fish stocks and has been killing ever larger numbers of whales for what it says is research, but what critics say is a thinly veiled slaughter for meat sold to a small percentage of the Japanese public.

The story posits that Japan's whaling institute may be propped up almost as much to secure jobs for former ministry officials as for sustaining whale stocks:

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As a factual matter, any deal that allows for coastal commercial whaling can not legally limit whaling, for example, to Japan and its four coastal communities, because the Convention assigns quotas to stocks, not countries.

Because of the considerable scientific uncertainty over the numbers of whales of different species and in different geographical stocks, the International Whaling Commission decided in 1989 that it would be better not to give whale population figures except for those species / stocks which have been assessed in some detail.

In addition to conferring certain protections under the MMPA, a depleted designation for the Sakhalin - Amur beluga whale stock would encourage the United States and foreign governments, conservation organizations, the scientific community, and funding institutions to support research and conservation efforts to help recover these belugas and protect their habitat.

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In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, researchers argued that reducing certain whale populations would aid stocks of krill, a ubiquitous crustacean in the Southern Ocean that is a key food source for baleen whales and other marine species.

The Convention was intended to provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and the regulation of commercial and aboriginal whaling.

For decades following the establishment of the IWC, hundreds of thousands of whales were slaughtered, seriously depleting all whale stocks.

«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.