Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns

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1. Story
2. From 1948 the USSR conducts illegal whaling worldwide, with fleets maintaining a falsified catch return for the International Whaling Commission and a true record internally. Blue whales are taken after they are protected. The reconstructed totals are large - about 330,000 whales killed in the Southern Ocean against roughly 185,000 reported - and the blue whale component is given differently across accounts, from one or two thousand up to more than three thousand. The consequence for science is that the twentieth-century catch series, the basis for every population reconstruction, was wrong while it was being used.
3. Knowledge
4. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
5. International Whaling Commission
6. Alexey Yablokov
7. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
8. Connections
9. International Whaling Commission
10. Antarctic Blue Whale (B. m. intermedia)
11. Alexey Yablokov
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. Southern Ocean
22. Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
23. IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership
24. Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
25. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
26. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
27. The heaviest blue whale on record is weighed
28. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
29. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
30. Whaling ends at South Georgia
31. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
32. Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
33. Blue whales are found back at South Georgia
34. The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
35. A capture-recapture abundance estimate for Antarctic blue whales is published
36. An individual Antarctic blue whale is re-sighted at South Georgia
37. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
38. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
39. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
40. Evidence
41. The USSR conducted illegal whaling from 1948, fleets keeping a falsified return for the IWC alongside a true internal record; Yablokov published the first account of the real scale in 1994, indicating roughly 330,000 whales killed in the Southern Ocean against about 185,000 reported. Protected blue whales were taken; the reconstructed number is given inconsistently across accounts, from one or two thousand to more than three thousand. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this literature; no catch-data paper was fetched and no single blue whale total is asserted.