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Title:

Regulation of Whaling on the Open Ocean – Controversies surrounding Whaling “for Scientific Purposes”

Subject and Keywords:

International Court of Justice   Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary   Scientific Whaling   JARPA permit   Commercial Whaling   Whaling Moratorium   Whaling

Abstract:

International regime governing whaling is a result of difficult political give-and-take between proponents of conservation of sea mammals, who argue that overexploitation of stocks seriously threatens species’ survival, and whaling states, which are opting for maintaining a sustainable level of catch. In 1982 International Whaling Commission acting according to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling enacted a moratorium for commercial whaling (from 1986 onwards) and established the so-called sanctuary, an area surrounding the continent of Antarctica where this prohibition has been in effect. At the same time the above-mentioned Convention explicitly allows for issuing a special aquatic permit (JARPA) that allow its holder to conduct scientific whaling while also allowing to process and sell all the remaining by-products such as meat, blubber or bones. Japan, being one of the primary whaling states, has been repeatedly accused of abusing JARPA and using the permit to cover up commercial whaling. The opportunity to solve these controversies and at the same provide an in-depth analysis of the complex international legal regime that regulates whaling has presented itself when a case against Japan for infringing the ban on commercial whaling has been brought to the International Court of Justice.

Place of publishing:

Wrocław

Publisher:

E-Wydawnictwo. Prawnicza i Ekonomiczna Biblioteka Cyfrowa. Wydział Prawa, Administracji i Ekonomii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

Date issued:

2016

Detailed Type:

journal

Format:

application/pdf

Identifier:

ISSN 2450-3932

Language:

pol   eng

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Is referenced by:

www.fiw.prawo.uni.wroc.pl

Replaces:

Folia Iuridica Wratislaviensis

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License:

Making materials available on the basis of the agreement with the owner of the property copyrights

Rights holder:

Copyright by Jakub Kociubiński

Location of original object:

Library of the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics

Autor opisu:

WR U/PAdjm   TK