CURRENT ISSUES AND KEY THEMES 29 The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling: From Over-Exploitation to Total Prohibition
The biological family of whales consists of about 80 spe-cies of varying size. Commercial whaling traditionally focused on the big whale species, the blue whale being the largest living mammal on earth. Whales have been caught for their fat, their meat, their bones, and their baleen or teeth. Since...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.580.4039 2023-05-15T15:45:12+02:00 CURRENT ISSUES AND KEY THEMES 29 The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling: From Over-Exploitation to Total Prohibition Sebastian Oberthür The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.580.4039 http://www.fni.no/ybiced/98_03_oberthur.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.580.4039 http://www.fni.no/ybiced/98_03_oberthur.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.fni.no/ybiced/98_03_oberthur.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T12:59:46Z The biological family of whales consists of about 80 spe-cies of varying size. Commercial whaling traditionally focused on the big whale species, the blue whale being the largest living mammal on earth. Whales have been caught for their fat, their meat, their bones, and their baleen or teeth. Since ancient times whaling has been conducted in catcher boats starting from the coast (coastal whaling), with the catch being processed in land stations. In addi-tion, indigenous people have always been whaling for their own usage (aboriginal whaling).1 The first signs of the over-exploitation of whale stocks were confined to specific regions. The situation worsened, however, in the middle of the nineteenth century, when modern whaling on the high seas (pelagic whaling) be-came possible. Whaling was now conducted by ‘expedi- Text Blue whale Unknown |
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The biological family of whales consists of about 80 spe-cies of varying size. Commercial whaling traditionally focused on the big whale species, the blue whale being the largest living mammal on earth. Whales have been caught for their fat, their meat, their bones, and their baleen or teeth. Since ancient times whaling has been conducted in catcher boats starting from the coast (coastal whaling), with the catch being processed in land stations. In addi-tion, indigenous people have always been whaling for their own usage (aboriginal whaling).1 The first signs of the over-exploitation of whale stocks were confined to specific regions. The situation worsened, however, in the middle of the nineteenth century, when modern whaling on the high seas (pelagic whaling) be-came possible. Whaling was now conducted by ‘expedi- |
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