{"id":88323,"date":"2020-05-10T19:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15318"},"modified":"2020-05-10T19:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T13:40:06","slug":"commercial-whaling-may-be-over-in-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/commercial-whaling-may-be-over-in-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Iceland may stop commercial whaling completely due to economic pressures and competition from Japan which also hunts whales and subsidises its whale products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Iceland alongside Norway and Japan has frequently withdrawn from the International Whaling Commission\u2019s 1986 worldwide moratorium which had indefinitely paused commercial whaling.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>International Whaling Commission:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is an Intergovernmental Organisation established in 1946 under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.<\/li><li><strong>Aim:<\/strong>To provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry.<\/li><li><strong>Headquarters: <\/strong>Cambridge, England.<\/li><li><strong>India: <\/strong>It is a member of the commission.<\/li><li>In 1986, the commission adopted a moratorium on commercial whaling and the moratorium continues till date.<\/li><li>However,it allows non-zero whaling quotas for aboriginal subsistence and also member nations may issue &#8216;Scientific Permits&#8217; to their citizens.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Iceland may stop commercial whaling completely due to economic pressures and competition from Japan which also hunts whales and subsidises its whale products. Facts: Iceland alongside Norway and Japan has frequently withdrawn from the International Whaling Commission\u2019s 1986 worldwide moratorium which had indefinitely paused commercial whaling. International Whaling Commission: It is an Intergovernmental Organisation established&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/commercial-whaling-may-be-over-in-iceland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[4633,4536],"class_list":["post-88323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-iceland","tag-international-whaling-commission","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704708218},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}