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- Vacancy at IWC Headquarters: Editorial Assistant
- Intersessional Report of the IWC 2018-22
- IWC-POWER research cruise sets sail
- Report of the 2022 Scientific Committee Meeting available now.
- Bycatch and illegal fishing on the agenda of a new, international collaboration
- Brazil hosts Conservation Management Plan Workshops for two vulnerable populations in the southwest Atlantic
- Third virtual meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee begins
- IWC workshop: the value of whales to the ecosystem
- Scientific Committee Implementation Review workshop
- Annual Scientific Committee meeting begins
- Collaboration and co-existence: the key to bycatch reduction and a winning formula for Pedro Fruet
- Available now: IWC Scientific Committee meeting report for 2021
- Annual IWC-POWER research cruise sets sail from Shiogama, Japan
- 75 years of recommendations: the IWC’s new, public database
- Special Virtual Meeting: Actions on Voting Rights and the Plight of the Vaquita
- IWC-POWER completes twelfth successful research voyage
- Fifth IWC Workshop on Climate Change and Cetaceans will focus on increased efforts and collaboration
- Pollution 2025: Intersessional Workshop
- 75 years of the IWC
- Marine debris workshop, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
- IWC Whale Watch Operators Workshop, Brisbane, Australia
- Conservation Management Plans, IWC Working Group Brisbane, Australia
- Southern Ocean Research Partnership (SORP) Conference, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 31 May – 2 June
- 2013 IWC Scientific Committee Meeting, Jeju, Republic of Korea
- IWC POWER Research Cruise
- Extending the global whale entanglement response network – IWC training in Salinas, Ecuador.
- 2013 IWC Scientific Committee Report published
- 2013 POWER Research Cruise sets sail
- New IWC Bureau meets in St Lucia, September 2013
- IWC-POWER Whale Research Ship Coming to Shiogama, Japan
- Extending the global whale entanglement response network
- Journal of Cetacean Research and Management moves online and open access
- CMP Working Group Report Published
- Now published - report of the IWC Whale Watch Operators Workshop
- Research establishes whale-friendly approach to seismic surveys
- Extending the global whale entanglement response network
- Arctic Impacts Workshop, 6-7 March 2014
- Understanding the threat to cetaceans from microplastics and PAHS - Pollution 2020
- North Pacific Gray Whale - range-wide review begins
- Cetaceans and the Soundscape workshop
- IWC report published on stranded cetaceans – Euthanasia Protocols to Optimize Welfare Concerns
- The whale entanglement response network extends to the Dominican Republic
- Successful release of entangled gray whale calf by newly trained Mexican response team
- Workshop: Collisions Between Marine Mammals and Ships, 18-20 June, 2014
- Nineteen cetacean species recorded by the latest IWC-POWER Research Cruise in the eastern North Pacific
- Long distance acoustic monitoring: the IWC-Southern Ocean Research Project (SORP)
- Experts gather for second marine debris workshop
- IWC Workshop - Southern Right Whale Die-Off and Kelp Gull Management
- The fifth IWC-POWER research cruise sets sail.
- Extending the whale entanglement response network – Tonga and Vanuatu.
- Vaquita: increasing concern for Mexico's 'little cow.'
- The 65th IWC meeting gets underway in Slovenia
- Aboriginal whaling and sanctuaries on the first day's agenda at the IWC meeting in Slovenia.
- Ongoing discussions and a Resolution regarding highly migratory species at IWC65
- Endangered vaquita and western gray whale on the agenda at the IWC meeting in Slovenia
- IWC’s 65th meeting closes with progress - and praise for a constructive dialogue
- Extending the global whale entanglement network - Oaxaca, Mexico
- IWC and SPREP - the benefits of collaboration
- Extending the whale entanglement network - Baja California Peninsula, Mexico
- Satellite tagging to help understand Southern Right Whale Die-Off in Patagonia
- IWC POWER Research Programme prepares for next phase.
- Expert assistance to help minimise the risk of collision to both racing crews and whales
- Expanding and evolving: the Global Entanglement Response Network
- Workshop to progress Strike Limit Algorithms for Greenland Subsistence Hunts
- Expert Review Panel workshop of NEWREP special permit proposal
- RMP Implementation Reviews workshop: North Atlantic minke and fin whales
- The IWC brings ship strikes to the agenda of Whalefest, Brighton.
- Stage two of the Gray Whale Rangewide Review.
- New report highlights surprising gray whale telemetry results
- Growing success: the IWC Global Whale Entanglement Response Network
- New website section explains the work of the Small Cetacean Voluntary Fund
- Research confirms perilous fin whale migration across busy shipping lanes
- The Scientific Committee of the IWC meets in San Diego
- Humpback whale 'Spinnaker' disentangled for the third time
- IWC Scientific Committee report is published
- Entanglement response training for IWC-POWER research crew - Shiogama, Japan
- The sixth IWC-POWER research cruise sets sail from Japan
- A very real test for IWC's entanglement apprentices
- IWC Bureau meets in Bern, Switzerland
- Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling: Expert Workshop begins in Greenland
- Building capacity - entanglement response apprentices share their knowledge
- Report of the IWC Expert Workshop on Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling
- New paper presents major advances in understanding of Omura’s whale
- An experimental success: entanglement & stranding response training in Oman
- Entanglement Response Training: critically endangered Southern Right Whales
- IWC Entanglement Training in Eastern Caribbean
- International collaboration on mass strandings and large scale mortalities
- Prestigious award for IWC funded scientist
- Sustainable whalewatching on the agenda in the Indian Ocean
- Call for Applications – the Small Cetaceans Voluntary Fund
- IWC Entanglement Response Training for Greenland
- IWC-SORP Research Fund - Call for Proposals
- IWC entanglement response training for northern Peru
- Entanglement response training for southern Brazil
- IWC Plenary begins in Portorož, Slovenia
- A wide variety of topics on day two of the IWC Plenary
- Focus on whaling, welfare, cetacean health and habitat on day three
- Five Resolutions adopted on day four of IWC66
- A comprehensive and diverse workplan is agreed as 2016 Plenary concludes
- Need for collaboration is demonstrated at entanglement workshop, Mexico
- Special Permit Whaling: Expert Panel Review
- Applications sought for new Voluntary Assistance Fund
- Scientific Committee meeting begins in Slovenia
- Scientific Committee Report available
- IWC entanglement and stranding response training for Sakhalin, Russia
- Annual IWC-POWER Cruise sets sail from Alaska
- Cetacean Tagging Workshop begins in the US
- IWC-POWER Research Ship returns to Japan
- IWC entanglement response training for Norway
- Entanglement training concludes in Columbia
- Latest satellite tagging information shows that nothing is simple in cetacean science
- IWC Governance Review Report published today
- Successful conclusion to Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Group Workshop (ASWWG)
- IWC Scientific Committee Meets in Bled
- Publication of annual Scientific Committee Report
- Entanglement Response Experts Meet in Provincetown, USA
- Marine Mammal Bycatch on the agenda at FAO
- IWC Plenary Meeting begins in Florianopolis, Brazil
- IWC meeting opens with agreement on next steps for IWC Governance Review
- IWC67: discussions on Subsistence Whaling and vote on South Atlantic Sanctuary
- Subsistence whaling catch limits & £50,000 for bycatch initiative
- Future direction of IWC & special permit whaling on IWC agenda
- IWC Plenary concludes in Florianopolis, Brazil
- Launch of the global Whale Watching Handbook
- Statement on Government of Japan withdrawal from the IWC
- Multi-faceted approach to protecting endangered southern right whales in the eastern South Pacific.
- Scientific Committee workshop: western North Pacific common minke whales
- IWC Workshop: Locating Ship Strike Hotspots
- IWC Workshop: Understanding Small Cetacean Catches
- Collaboration at the heart of the first Bycatch Mitigation Initiative workshop
- Annual Scientific Committee begins in Nairobi
- IWC entanglement response training for Kenya
- Whale Song Library and Satellite Tagging Guidelines amongst wide-ranging recommendations of the 2019 Scientific Committee
- Expanding entanglement response capability for endangered Southern right whales in the western South Atlantic.
- Annual IWC-POWER Cruise sets sail from Alaska
- Small Cetaceans Task Team workshop: South Asian River Dolphins
- IWC attends Whaling Captains’ Convention, Utqiaġvik, Alaska
- Bycatch Mitigation in the Indian Ocean: IWC workshop report published
- Latest Entanglement Response trainees complete an action-packed apprenticeship in Cape Cod.
- IWC hosts international biodiversity group
- Entanglement response training in Scottish Highlands
- Conservation Management Plans: raising awareness at every level
- Guiana dolphin workshop gets underway in Brazil
- Next steps in work to understand and mitigate the threat to cetaceans from marine debris
- New Tagging Guidelines to protect whales and their observers
- Review of the IWC’s Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research Programme (IWC-POWER)
- Workshop: status of the Franciscana dolphin
- Indian Ocean's whale watching aims for gold standard in sustainability
- Species of the Week
- Week Two - IWC Species of the Week
- New publication: IWC Scientific Committee’s 2019 annual meeting report
- Species of the Week - Week Three
- Species of the Week - Week Four
- Virtual meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee begins
- Species of the Week - Week Five
- Species of the Week - Week Six
- IWC reflects on World Oceans Day 2020 - with collaboration at its core
- Available now: report of the 2020 (virtual) meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee
- New educational resources for Whale Watching Handbook
- Marine debris: a substantial threat with more research required
- Pacific whale and ecosystem research programme completes 11th annual cruise.
- Meeting of the Conservation Committee: six work plans, 150 participants and over £125,000 of voluntary contributions
- Guided tours of the Whale Watching Handbook
- 75 years of the IWC
- Successful response to entangled Arabian Sea humpback
- Published: FAO technical guidelines to reduce and prevent bycatch
- Call for Applications – the Small Cetaceans Voluntary Fund
- On World Wildlife Day, scientists highlight the threat of cetacean extinctions - and importance of acting now
- JCRM relaunch - a long-standing journal for today’s digital age
- News Bulletin
- Meeting Accreditation
- Blue Whale Song Reference Library
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The International Whaling Commission - IWC
The IWC was established in 1946 as the global body responsible for management of whaling and conservation of whales. Today the IWC has 88 member countries. The mandate has not changed but many new conservation concerns exist and the IWC work programme now also includes bycatch & entanglement, ship strikes, ocean noise, pollution and debris, and sustainable whale watching.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE IWC:
Vacancy at IWC Headquarters: Editorial Assistant
4 days ago
The IWC is seeking an Editorial Assistant to work on the long-standing, peer-reviewed Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (JCRM).
LATEST NEWS FROM THE IWC:
IWC Intersessional Report 2018-22
25 days ago
The Intersessional Report of the IWC for the period 2018-22 is available now.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE IWC:
IWC-POWER research cruise sets sail
4 Aug 2022
The 12th international research cruise in the IWC-POWER series embarked today from Shiogama. This is the latest stage in a long-term programme to determine the status of large whale populations found in North Pacific waters, some of which have not been surveyed for several decades.
The cruise programme is an international collaboration aiming to provide essential information, enabling scientists to understand whether conservation threats exist for particular species and locations and if so, what measures might address these threats.
The objectives for this year’s cruise are broadly similar to previous years and include providing information for ongoing IWC assessments of North Pacific sei, humpback and gray whales in terms of abundance, distribution and stock structure.
The duration of each cruise is approximately 60 days and this voyage is scheduled to return to port on September 30. By the time the vessel has travelled to and from the area of study, approximately 45-50 days remain for research. The scientists on board work from one hour after sunrise to one hour before sunset, making the most of the opportunity and the daylight. Between 70 and 90 nautical miles are covered each day that the vessel is in the research area.
The research vessel, Yushin Maru No. 2, is provided by the Government of Japan and the long-term scientific programme has been designed and approved by the IWC’s Scientific Committee and its 88 member governments. The Government of Japan is no longer a member of the IWC but co-operation continues in a number of research areas.
A report of the cruise will be presented to the Scientific Committee of the IWC at its annual meeting in Spring 2022.
To read more about the IWC-POWER programme click here.
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LATEST NEWS FROM THE IWC:
Report of the 2022 Scientific Committee Meeting available now.
12 Jul 2022
The committee provides scientific advice to the Commission. Topics on the agenda at this year’s meeting included assessments of specific population abundances, structures and status, ecosystem modelling, environmental issues and human impacts such as ship strikes and bycatch.
LATEST NEWS FROM THE IWC:
Bycatch and illegal fishing on the agenda of a new, international collaboration
21 Jun 2022
In June, the IWC will participate in a new, global initiative to increase co-ordination and co-operation amongst regional fisheries bodies.
Whaling, conservation & welfare issues including whale watching and small cetaceans.
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