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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"International Whaling Commission"”.
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The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission: effective local management of a subsistence resource
In 1977 the International Whaling Commission (IWC) deleted the exemption that allowed Alaska Eskimos to harvest the bowhead whale. This sparked considerable controversy. The IWC had not previously exerted authority over aboriginal whaling. The Eskimos responded by forming the Alaska Eskimo Whaling …
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Subsistence whaling in Alaska
… altered the pattern of post-white contact whaling by Eskimos. This pattern was allowed to stabilize to some extent after the collapse of the commercial whaling industry in 1908. After the second world war a new wave of white presence in the north again caused drastic social and economic …
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An investigation on humpback whales' distribution in relation to Antarctic sea ice in the IDCR/SOWER dataset
… rather than the feeding areas identified by the International Whaling Commission. The results show that although humpback whales indicate southward expansion as the sea ice retreats, the influence of interannual changes in sea ice on sightings is not uniform, and evident only in a few sectors. …
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Essays in Internationsl Political Economy
… studies three important questions in international political economy: The long run consequences of social divisions created by historical colonialism, the importance of trade shocks in shifting political power balances and shaping institutional development and the influence that major …
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Teleology in the Law of International Organisations
… nature and use of purposive legal reasoning in international law, and the particular role it plays in the law of international organisations (IOs). I begin by examining the concept of purpose, the multiple levels of abstraction at which it is identifiable, and the different ways it is …
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Whales from space: Assessing the feasibility of using satellite imagery to monitor whales
… extinction, following centuries of commercial whaling. Since the implementation of a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1985 by the International Whaling Commission, the recovery of whale population is being regularly assessed. Various methods are used to survey whale populations, though most …
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Modelling the krill-predator dynamics of the Antarctic ecosystem
… that were heavily depleted during the commercial whaling period are now recovering at rates in the vicinity of 10% per year, but there are some indications of a recent decrease in minke whale numbers. Thus, the consumption of krill by these large baleen whales has probably been increasing over …