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> Even now after the "ban" that catch is pushing up near 10,000 a year. Not sure this is true. This site[0] puts the total 2018 catch at only 1553. [0]https:/
by fr0sty 7y ago
> Even now after the "ban" that catch is pushing up near 10,000 a year.
Not sure this is true. This site[0] puts the total 2018 catch at only 1553.
[0]https://iwc.int/total-catches https://iwc.int/total-catches
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThat's doesn't include the main catch nations who didn't sign up to the IWC, or later left it, just what's reported to the IWC by member nations. Norway never joined, and Iceland left IWC for instance. Canada and Denmark (Faroes) can exceed that amount just between the two of them. Some nations have long and significant history of fraudulent reporting -- most excessively the Russians.