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The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting

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.

Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.

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Evidence

Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.

Recorded on International Whaling Commission

  1. Whaling begins at Grytviken, South Georgia
  2. The longest blue whale on record is measured at South Georgia
  3. The Antarctic blue whale catch reaches its all-time peak
  4. The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed
  5. The heaviest blue whale on record is weighed
  6. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
  7. Whaling ends at South Georgia
  8. The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
  9. The IWC adopts the commercial whaling moratorium
  10. The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
  11. The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
  12. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
  13. The energetics of blue whale lunge feeding are modelled
  14. Dedicated Antarctic Blue Whale Project voyages
  15. Blue whales are found back at South Georgia
  16. Baleen whale consumption is re-measured, and the krill paradox sharpens
  17. The only published Antarctic blue whale satellite tracks are released as data
  18. A capture-recapture abundance estimate for Antarctic blue whales is published
  19. An individual Antarctic blue whale is re-sighted at South Georgia

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