The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed
The convention establishing the International Whaling Commission is signed in Washington. Catch limits are to be set by amendment to a Schedule, and reporting of catches is left to member states - the arrangement that will later allow Soviet returns to be falsified for decades without detection.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- International Whaling Commission · organisation · International · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Population status summaries and blue whale species page
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.
International Whaling Commission · accessed 2026-08-08 · Partly verified
https://iwc.int/about-whales/intro-to-population-status/status-of-whales-text-summaries and https://iwc.int/about-whales/whale-species/blue-whale
Recorded on International Whaling Commission
- The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is signed
- Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
- The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting
- The IWC adopts the commercial whaling moratorium
- The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect
- The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted
- The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
- The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is adopted · 1994
- The true scale of Soviet whaling is published · 1994
- The commercial whaling moratorium takes effect · 1986 (coastal); 1985/86 pelagic season
- The IWC adopts the commercial whaling moratorium · 1982
- The IWC protects blue whales from commercial hunting · 1966
- Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns · 1948-1970s