The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting

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1. Story
2. Blue whales are protected from hunting under the IWC from 1966, after the Antarctic population has already been reduced to a small fraction of its former size. One retrieved summary refers to an earlier zero-catch measure in 1964 whose geographic scope could not be confirmed in this session. Protection arrives after the commercial incentive has largely collapsed, which is a recurring pattern rather than a coincidence.
3. Knowledge
4. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
5. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
6. International Whaling Commission
7. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
8. Connections
9. International Whaling Commission
10. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
11. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
12. Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
13. IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership
14. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed
15. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
16. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
17. The IWC adopts the commercial whaling moratorium
18. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
19. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
20. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
21. Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)
22. Rorqual Lunge Feeding
23. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
24. Pygmy Blue Whale (B. m. brevicauda)
25. Northern Indian Ocean Blue Whale (putative B. m. indica)
26. Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
27. Whale-Mediated Iron Recycling
28. Vessel Collision with Large Whales
29. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
30. The heaviest blue whale on record is weighed
31. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
32. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
33. Blue whale song frequencies are observed falling worldwide
34. The energetics of blue whale lunge feeding are modelled
35. Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
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.