U.S. Gets Its Subsistence Quota But at a High Cost: Iceland's Return to IWC

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	U.S. Gets Its Subsistence Quota But at a High Cost: Iceland's Return to IWC

October 28, 2002

In its desire to swiftly secure a subsistence bowhead quota for two aboriginal communities—a proposal originally denied at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in May—the United States set the stage on October 14 for an ambush maneuver that allowed Iceland to rejoin the IWC with a reservation to the moratorium on commercial whaling.

Unless overturned, Iceland's readmission could set a poor precedent for international treaties and lead to a resumption of commercial whaling.

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