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09-07-2009, 04:38 AM
The reason of commercial whaling prohibition is because IWC adopted commercial whaling moratorium in 1982. Whaling is planned to resume after that and alongside IWC adopted "Revised Management Procedure" as new commercial whaling regulation in 1994. So whale fishermen does not have to change their job because whaling is fair.
Fin Whales have decreased heavily as compared with their best time, but now exist 30,000 at least, that is more than 3 times of Bowhead which are hunted over 50 every year.
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