The true scale of Soviet whaling is published

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1. Story
2. Alexey Yablokov publishes the first account of the real Soviet catch, drawn from the internally retained true records. Every population reconstruction that had used the reported series - including those for Antarctic blue whales - now has to be redone against a different history. It is the clearest case in this Journey of a scientific baseline being corrected long after the events it describes.
3. Knowledge
4. International Whaling Commission
5. Alexey Yablokov
6. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
7. Connections
8. Alexey Yablokov
9. Alexey Yablokov
10. International Whaling Commission
11. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
12. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
13. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
14. Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary
15. IWC Southern Ocean Research Partnership
16. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed
17. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
18. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
19. The IWC adopts the commercial whaling moratorium
20. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
21. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
22. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
23. Evidence
24. 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.