Want to save the whales? Put a price on them says ASU professor

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 06:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Overharvest by commercial whaling has been a well-recognized world threat to stable whale populations since the International Whaling Commission (IWC) issued a moratorium against commercial whaling in 1986. However, because of loopholes, whaling countries at odds with the ban continue to hunt under the guise of scientific whaling or in outright objection to the IWC.

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