The convention is a successor to the International Agreement for the Regulation of Whaling, signed in London on June 8, 1937, and the protocols for that agreement signed in London on June 24 ...

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The rules for aboriginal subsistence whaling (ASW) are contained in paragraph 13 of the Schedule to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) and allow for “aborigines,” whose ...

In 1946, however, shortly after the close of the Second World War, governments of the main whaling nations came together to negotiate the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), ...

In 1904, a Norwegian whaler named C.F. Larsen went to the South Atlantic island of South Georgia for the first time, and was ...

Japan rejects accusations that it breaches both the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling and the ban on whaling in the Antarctic. These differences have been ongoing for several ...

Japan has resumed catching whales for profit, in defiance of international criticism. Its last commercial hunt was in 1986, but Japan has never really stopped whaling - it has been conducting ...