8 Int'l Legal Persp. 37 (1996)
A Treaty Comes of Age for the Ancient Ones: Implications of the Law of the Sea for the Regulation of Whaling

handle is hein.journals/intlegp8 and id is 43 raw text is: A Treaty Comes of Age for the Ancient Ones: Implications of the Law of the Sea for the Regulation of Whaling Johanna Matanich I. Introduction Whales exist today at the center of an anthropological conflict between economics and ecology. More importantly, they exist amid competing international viewpoints on what economics and ecology mean.' The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is the primary international body regulating human interaction with whales.? In 1946, it was created to protect the whaling industry from over-harvesting its own livelihood, by protecting whale stocks for sustainable exploitation.,3 The Convention established the Interna tional Whaling Commission (IWC) to carry out its mission. The IWC is the forum at which the ideological struggle over whales and whaling is played out. Several states opposed to whaling have joined the IWC, and seek to influence its process in favor of whale preservation. Today, the IWC operates in a world where public opinion now predominately favors an end to all commercial whal- ' R. Michael M'Gonigle, The Economizing of Ecology: Why Big, Rare Whales Still Die, 9 ECOLOGY L.Q. 120, 121 (1980). 2 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, Dec. 2, 1946, art. 11, T.I.A.S. No. 1849, 161 U.N.T.S. 72, [hereinafter International Whaling Conven- tion]. 3 W.F. Perrin, DOLPHINS, PORPOISES, AND WHALES, 1 (1989).

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