International Management of Whales and Whaling: An Historical Review of the Regulation of Commercial and Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Gambell, Ray
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1993
• Subjects: Environmental policy; History; International Whaling Commission; Law; Native peoples; Public opinion; Subsistence; Sustainable economic development; Whales; Whaling; Wildlife management; Arctic regions; Antarctic; Arctic; Baleine; Baleinière; la Baleine; The Antarctic; Antarc*; baleine boréale; Law of the Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64385

The exploitation of whales has spread over the centuries from coastal to international waters, and from pole to pole. Despite the successive depletion of one species and stock after another, not until the 20th century were attempts instituted to regulate the industry and the catches at an internatio...