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This 3 page paper examines the issue of international whaling practices, the regulations, as well as the impact on several nations throughout the world. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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mobilized protests that resulted in one of the greatest accomplishments of environmental activism: a global moratorium on whaling. Nearly thirty years later, the question remains as to whether or not
the Earths whales are any better off now in the 1990s? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that they are not. The
Center for Marine Conservation (1993, pp. 7) explains that whales still havent rebounded from the dramatic stock declines caused by centuries of hunting. Countries who hunt whales under
the guise of "scientific purposes" have continued to use that argument as a loophole to obtain whale meat for the extremely lucrative aspect of selling it as a luxury food
item. Meanwhile, seven of the eight great whale species decimated by whaling are still on the Endangered Species List. Only one - the California gray, also known as the
Pacific gray - has recovered in sufficient numbers to be removed from the list. Even after the global moratorium on whaling went
into full effect in 1987, whales have continued to be hunted. Japan was the first to take advantage of a loophole in the agreement that allowed hunting for scientific purposes.
Iceland followed suit, whaling that year under the guise of scientific research. While a Greenpeace boycott of Icelandic fish producers forced the nation to halt its whaling in 1990,
Japanese whaling continues to this day. In 1993, several whaling nations filed to downlist six species of great whales from their present endangered status at the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting, effectively re-opening the way for a full-scale resumption of commercial whaling. Norway resumed commercial whaling as recently as
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