ASOC supports the creation of marine protected areas and marine reserves to ensure that these species and the habitats they depend on are fully protected. At the 2010 meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Morocco, representatives of the 88 member states discussed whether or not to lift the 24-year ban on commercial whaling. The Southern Ocean Research Partnership (IWC-SORP) The IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership (IWC-SORP) was established in 2009 as an integrated, collaborative consortium for cetacean research, which aims to maximise conservation-orientated outcomes for Southern Ocean cetaceans through an understanding of the post-exploitation status, health, dynamics and environmental linkages … Whaling and overfishing. The IWC also declared the entire Indian Ocean as a whale sanctuary. The ICRW came into force in 1948, and by 1950 sixteen nations, including all major pelagic whaling nations, had ratified the convention Two Sanctuaries are currently designated by the International Whaling Commission, both of which prohibit commercial whaling.

The Commission has a current membership of 89 Governments from countries around the World. “We are delighted to see the end of whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. Japan says it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunts but says it will no longer go to the Antarctic to hunt. The intention is to stop the so-called research whaling’ operations in the high seas of Antarctica and the North Pacific and instead concentrate on hunting sei, … It was set up in 1946 under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling. The International Whaling Commission is a global organisation which protects whales and manages whaling. It banned commercial whaling in 1986. The International Whaling Commission has 89 governments from around the world involved. Japan is the only country conducting whaling in international waters, including in a whale sanctuary in the ocean off the Antarctic coast, she adds. The Southern Ocean is home to many unique and fascinating species, from penguins and seals to glass sponges and colossal squid. The Whaling in the Antarctic case: a landmark judgment and its potential implications Dario Piselli* *(Undergraduate Student - Università degli Studi di Siena, Department of Law) ABSTRACT On 31 March 2014 the International Court of Justice issued its long-awaited judgment on the case concerning whaling in the Antarctic, brought before it by Australia over Japan's alleged breach of certain obligations under … Their mission is to protect the whales from … The International Whaling Commission has 89 governments from around the world involved. The second was adopted in 1994 and covers the waters of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

A coalition of anti-whaling nations has offered a compromise plan that would allow these countries to continue whaling, but with smaller catches and …