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The convention is a successor to the 1931 Geneva Convention for Regulation of Whaling and the 1937 International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling, established in response to the overexploitation of whales in the post-World War I period.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is a specialised regional fishery management organisation, established under the terms of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry".
International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW, replaces the 1931 Geneva Convention for Regulation of Whaling and the 1937 International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling) International Whaling Commission 1982 moratorium on whaling, 2018 Florianópolis Declaration
Signing the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, Washington, D.C., Dec 2, 1946. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was created in 1946 in Washington to "provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry". [70]
The International Whaling Commission released its first ever extinction alert to raise awareness surrounding the decreasing vaquita porpoise population.
The whaling industry was initially supported by governments of whaling nations, then gradually regulated from 1946 with the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, and in 1949 with the creation of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), to conserve whale stocks.
The League of Nations held a conference on whaling in 1927, and in 1931, 27 countries signed a convention for the regulation of whaling. The convention was not enforceable, and a record ~43,000 whales were caught in 1931. In 1932, whaling companies formed a cartel, which cut harvests for two years, but then failed.
Anti-whaling activist Watson to stay in Greenland detention. September 4, 2024 at 8:10 AM. ... Japan issued an international warrant for his arrest more than a decade ago, seeking him on charges ...