ANTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Microsoft Powerpoint, Fiduciary, American Institute For Economic Research
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December 6th, 2016 spirits of our whaling ancestors: challenges to our right to whale. Treaty of neah bay, 1855 recognizes the right to whale: do not give rights, they affirm rights. International whaling commission (iwc) and international convention for the. Iwc was set up because commercial whaling was unregulated and almost every species was hunted to near extinction, not every nation is a part of it. 1987 iwc worldwide whaling moratorium: exemption for scientific and aboriginal subsistence whaling. Japa(cid:374) uses the (cid:862)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)(cid:863) e(cid:454)e(cid:373)ptio(cid:374) for their whale hunts. Aboriginal subsistence whaling is the exemption the makah tried to file under. The us government had to advocate on behalf of them. Iwc rejected their proposal because you have to prove that you subsisted on whales during a certain period of time. 1997 iwc whaling quota issued to the makah: quota of 20 whales over a five-year period. Federal agencies overseeing the makah whale hunt: noaa, nmfs.
