1. Customary International Law and Whaling
International customary law is the original source of law that governs the behaviour of sovereign States. ... For the purposes of this essay, aboriginal subsistence whaling will not be considered as it does not come under the definition of a "national fishing fleet." ... The massive depletion in whale stocks brought about the 1946 International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW) which duly established the International Whaling Commission (IWC). ... The Japanese fisheries Agency purported that the purpose for the ICRW is to be the instrument for the management of whales not for...
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