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Acronym: IUCN
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International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
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fficient data to determine population trends ==Conservation== Bryde’s whale is listed as Data Deficient by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). It is also listed in Conservation on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix I, which prohibits international trade. Omura's whale is not listed by the |
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Acronym: PSP
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Paralytic shellfish poisoning
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7231859.html |title=Whale Wathc: Endangered Designation In Danger |date=11/06/09 |accessdate=11/08/09 |last=Hotz |first=Robert Lee }} Saxitoxin, a Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) from contaminated mackerel has been implicated in humpback whale deaths. {{cite book |author=Dierauf L & Gulland F |year=2001 |title=Marine Mammal Medicine |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=0849308 |
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Acronym: IWC
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International Whaling Commission
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storical IDCR/SOWER Survey Data Using the OK Method | author = Hiroshi Okamura and Toshihide Kitakado | accessdate = 2010-01-06 }} In the early 1990s the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Scientific Committee agreed that minkes in the Southern Hemisphere numbered 760,000 (CPII), which the Japanese whaling industry currently uses as the (2005) estimate. In 2000, however, the Committee |
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Acronym: IWC
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International Whaling Commission
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nd most European and Latin American states are members, among others.]] The Sei Whale did not have meaningful international protection until 1970 when the International Whaling Commission (IWC) first set catch quotas for the North Pacific for individual species. Before quotas there were no legal limits. Complete protection from commercial whaling in the North Pacific came in 1976. |
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Acronym: WDCS
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Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
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Genoa – Biology Department (2005) * University of Malta – Conservation Biology Research Group (2005) * University of Valencia (2002) * Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) (2004) * World Conservation Union (IUCN) (2004) * WWF Mediterranean Programme Office (2007) |
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