The rules for aboriginal subsistence whaling (ASW) are contained in paragraph 13 of the Schedule to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) and allow for “aborigines,” whose ...

In 1946, however, shortly after the close of the Second World War, governments of the main whaling nations came together to negotiate the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), ...

Taking advantage of a loophole in the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling that allows whales to be killed for research purposes, the Government of Japan switched its Antarctic ...

Although it has sometimes been difficult to draw attention to the magnitude of the problem, there is no intrinsic difference between bycatch and whaling. Both remove animals permanently from the wild ...