Sentences with phrase «whaling catch quotas»
The aim is to complete all West Greenland SLAs before the next Commission review of aboriginal whale catch quotas in 2018.
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Under the whaling convention, governments are free to set their own scientific catch quotas — even in a sanctuary — so Japan can be expected to kill up to 440 minke whales next season.
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.
Despite this suspension, Iceland continues to permit whaling and has a government issued fin whale quota in effect for the 2011 season that continues to exceed catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium was removed.