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If we can imagine a horse having two or three explosive spears stuck in its stomach and being made to pull a butcher’s truck through the streets of London while it pours blood into the gutter, we shall have an idea of the method of killing.

Dr. Harry Lillie (1940s)

 

Whales caught 2016

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There were only eight countries in 2016 allowed to catch whales, two officially doing ‘commercial whaling’, Norway and Iceland among those one -Iceland- didn’t catch any that year. Japan is fishing under the ‘special permit’ ruling. North America/Alaska, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Greenland are whaling with a ‘Aboriginal Subsistence’ permit with respective catch limits.

In 2016 Norway caught the highest number of whales, 591 exclusively Minke whales, followed by Japan with 488 total catches, consisting of Minke, Sei and Bryde’s whales. Japan is the only country still catching whales in Antarctic waters, catches that have been discussed by the International Court of Justice with Australia and New Zealand intervening.

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Technical Notes

This map shows the proportion of whales caught in 2016.

Data sources
This map uses data by International Whaling Commission (last accessed July 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.

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