![Whales caught 2010-2014, by country, showing species caught most often by each country Sources: IWC Summary "Catch Database" version 6.1, July 2016,[1] which includes great whales, orcas, bottlenose whales, pilot whales, and Baird's Beaked Whales. This database is fairly complete back to 1900, and has some pre-1900 counts, especially for the US back to 1848, and for Norway back to 1864, and partial data before 1900 for other countries. The IWC database is supplemented by Faroese catches of pilot whales,[2] Greenland's and Canada's catches of Narwhals (data 1954-2014),[3] Belugas from multiple sources shown in the Beluga whale article, Indonesia's catches of sperm whales,[4][5] and bycatch in Korea.[6] Korea is the only country where bycatch changes the graph noticeably.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Whales_caught_recently.png)
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Whales caught 2010-2014, by country, showing species caught most often by each country
Sources: IWC Summary "Catch Database" version 6.1, July 2016,[1] which includes great whales, orcas, bottlenose whales, pilot whales, and Baird's Beaked Whales. This database is fairly complete back to 1900, and has some pre-1900 counts, especially for the US back to 1848, and for Norway back to 1864, and partial data before 1900 for other countries. The IWC database is supplemented by Faroese catches of pilot whales,[2] Greenland's and Canada's catches of Narwhals (data 1954-2014),[3] Belugas from multiple sources shown in the Beluga whale article, Indonesia's catches of sperm whales,[4][5] and bycatch in Korea.[6] Korea is the only country where bycatch changes the graph noticeably. |
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| Author | Numbersinstitute |
| Country | Commercial or Aboriginal | Total | Minke | Belugas | Narwhals | Pilot Whales | Gray | Sei | Fin | Bowhead | Bryde's | Sperm | Humpback | Orca |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 21,008 | 5,663 | 4,831 | 4,548 | 3,699 | 642 | 486 | 460 | 323 | 189 | 108 | 57 | 2 | |
| Canada | A | 4,510 | 1,626 | 2,869 | 15 | |||||||||
| Greenland | A | 3,953 | 875 | 1,316 | 1,679 | 37 | 4 | 42 | ||||||
| Faroe Islands | A | 3,698 | 3,698 | |||||||||||
| Norway | C | 2,795 | 2,795 | |||||||||||
| Japan | C | 2,080 | 1,396 | 486 | 3 | 187 | 8 | |||||||
| USA | A | 1,887 | 1,586 | 301 | ||||||||||
| Russia /USSR | A | 948 | 303 | 642 | 3 | |||||||||
| Iceland | C | 648 | 229 | 419 | ||||||||||
| South Korea | C | 376 | 368 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Indonesia | A | 100 | 100 | |||||||||||
| St. Vincent+ Grenadines | A | 13 | 13 |
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- ↑ IWC Catch Database version 6.1 (in en). IWC (July 2016). Retrieved on 2018-12-22.
- ↑ Zoological Department, Museum of Natural History (2008-06-12). Whaling Information. Faroe islands Department of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. Retrieved on 2018-12-22.
- ↑ Wittig, Lars (2016-06-18). "Meta population modelling of narwhals in East Canada and West Greenland - 2017". bioRxiv, Report submitted as supporting document to the Canada National Marine Mammal Peer Review Committee. Canada National Marine Mammal Peer Review Committee, Winnipeg, Canada..
- ↑ Broadhead, Ivan (2008-03-08). "In for the kill, last of the ancient whalers". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ↑ Burnet, Ian (2015-10-23). The Whale Hunters of Lamalera (in en). spiceislandsblog. Retrieved on 2018-12-22.
- ↑ Korea's Annual Progress Reports to the IWC Scientific Committee 2009-2017 https://iwc.int/scprogress and https://portal.iwc.int/progressreportspublic/report
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