The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect

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1. Story
2. The zero catch limit adopted in 1982 comes into force - for the 1985/86 pelagic season and the 1986 coastal season. For blue whales it changes little in practice, since they had been protected since 1966 and were commercially exhausted long before that; its significance for this Journey is that it closes the era in which the whales' migration route and the fleet's hunting range were the same map. No blue whales, including pygmy blue whales, have been taken commercially since.
3. Knowledge
4. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
5. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
6. International Whaling Commission
7. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
8. Connections
9. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
10. International Whaling Commission
11. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
12. Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)
13. Rorqual Lunge Feeding
14. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
15. Pygmy Blue Whale (B. m. brevicauda)
16. Northern Indian Ocean Blue Whale (putative B. m. indica)
17. Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
18. Whale-Mediated Iron Recycling
19. Vessel Collision with Large Whales
20. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
21. The heaviest blue whale on record is weighed
22. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
23. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
24. Blue whale song frequencies are observed falling worldwide
25. The energetics of blue whale lunge feeding are modelled
26. Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
27. Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
28. IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership
29. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed
30. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
31. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
32. The IWC adopts the commercial whaling moratorium
33. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
34. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
35. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
36. Southern Ocean
37. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
38. IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership
39. Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
40. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
41. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
42. The heaviest blue whale on record is weighed
43. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
44. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
45. Whaling ends at South Georgia
46. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
47. Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
48. Blue whales are found back at South Georgia
49. The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
50. A capture-recapture abundance estimate for Antarctic blue whales is published
51. An individual Antarctic blue whale is re-sighted at South Georgia
52. Evidence
53. Blue whales have been protected from hunting by the IWC since 1966; the commercial moratorium was adopted in 1982 with effect from the 1985/86 pelagic and 1986 coastal seasons via paragraph 10(e) of the Schedule; Antarctic blue whale abundance remains below one percent of pre-whaling size. V55 verification basis: iwc.int is blocked by this environment's egress proxy and could not be fetched; these statements come from search summaries that attribute them to the IWC and from concurring secondary sources. One summary refers to a 1964 zero-catch measure whose scope could not be confirmed.
54. Nearly 2.9 million large whales were killed and processed worldwide between 1900 and 1999, and no blue whales, including pygmy blue whales, have been taken since the moratorium took effect. V55 verification basis: the 2.9 million total and the post-moratorium statement were retrieved in search summary; the species-level blue whale total in this paper was NOT captured and is not cited here.