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America and Russia are whaling nations. America and Russia keep commercial whale hunting in the name of aboriginal whaling (subsistence hunting) even though IWC (the International Whaling Commission) prohibited commercial whaling in response to the species dwindling numbers in 1986. Properly speaking, they arent informed about the reality of American and Russian whaling intentionally.

America and Russia keep whale hunting every year. America and Russia are killing 414 whales in total for one year. Each of these two countries has whale hunting quotas of 67 Bowhead Whales and 140 Gray Whales every year. (134 Bowhead Whales and 280 Gray Whales in total) However, number of surviving Bowhead Whales (=Greenland Whale) is just only 9,000 in total on the earth at present. Bowhead Whales have already become extinction due to excessive hunting in North Atlantic Ocean. Bowhead Whale has been designated as an endangered species at Washington Convention.

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