White paper on management and utilization of large whales in Greenland. [Presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission].

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2012Corporate Author
Government of Greenland, Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting & Agriculture
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94pp.
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Within the IWC context, Greenland’s hunt of large whales falls in the category of Aboriginal
Subsistence Whaling (ASW) together with the whaling of the Russian Federation, St. Vincent
and The Grenadines and the USA.
For aboriginal subsistence whaling the IWC has the following objectives:
- ensure risks of extinction not seriously increased (highest priority);
- enable harvests in perpetuity appropriate to cultural and nutritional requirements;
- maintain stocks at highest net recruitment level and if below that ensure they move
towards it.
The Greenland hunt for large whales respects those objectives......
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Government of Greenland, Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting & AgricultureGreenland
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IWC/64/ASW/X;Document Language
enSustainable Development Goals (SDG)
14.2Essential Ocean Variables (EOV)
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Greenland watersArctic Region
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Government of Greenland, Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting & Agriculture (2012) White paper on management and utilization of large whales in Greenland. [Presented at 63rd Annual Meeting of International Whaling Commission]. Greenland, Government of Greenland, Ministry of Fisheries, Hunting & Agriculture, 95pp. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1699Collections
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