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Commission
The 2016 biennial Commission meeting of the IWC will be held at the Grand Hotel Bernardin, Portoroz, Slovenia.
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Whales
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Conservation & Management
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Scientific Research
Scientific Committee 2017 - SC67A
The 2017 meeting of the IWC Scientific Committee will be held at the Hotel Golf, Bled, Slovenia.
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Scientific Research
Annual IWC-POWER Cruise sets sail from Alaska
13 Jul 2017
The 8th international research cruise in the IWC-POWER series has embarked from Dutch Harbour, Alaska. This is the latest stage in a long-term programme to determine the status of populations of the large whales found in North Pacific Waters, some of which have not been surveyed for several decades.
Scientific Committee Report available
6 Jun 2017
Special Permit Whaling: Expert Panel Review
25 Jan 2017
The International Whaling Commission
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is the global body charged with the conservation of whales and the management of whaling. The IWC currently has 88 member governments from countries all over the world. All members are signatories to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. This Convention is the legal framework which established the IWC in 1946.
Uncertainty over whale numbers led to the introduction of a ‘moratorium’ on commercial whaling in 1986. This remains in place although the Commission continues to set catch limits for aboriginal subsistence whaling. Today, the Commission also works to understand and address a wide range of non-whaling threats to cetaceans including entanglement, ship strike, marine debris, climate change and other environmental concerns.
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Conservation & Management
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