Whaling by IWC member nations in 2000-2001 and Summer 2001
Area Blue Fin Sei Bryde Sperm Minke Others TOTAL
Southern Hemisphere:-
- Japan - - - - - 4401 - 440
North Atlantic:-
- Denmark
(Greenland)		 - 82 - - - 1562 22 166
- Norway - - - - - 5523 - 552
- St. Vincent &
the Grenadines		 - - - - - - 24 2
North Pacific:-
- Japan - - 15 506 86 1006 - 159
- Korea - - - - - 17 - 1
- Russian Fed. - - - - - - 1138 113
- U.S.A. - - - - - - 759 75
TOTAL - 8 1 50 8 1249 192 1508
1) Special permit.
2) Aboriginal catch.
8 fin whales (including 1 struck but lost), 139 minke whales (including 2 struck but lost), 2 humpback whales (both struck and lost) in West Greenlandand.
17 minke whales (including 3 struck and lost) in East Greenland.
3) Commercial operation based on legitimate objection to the moratorium (including 11 whales struck but lost).
4) Aboriginal catch of humpback whales.
5) One sei whale taken by error during special permit catch.
6) Special permit.
7) An affair of illegal direct catch by small harpoon.
8) Aboriginal catch of 1 Bowhead whale, and 112 gray whales.
9) Aboriginal catch of Bowhead whales, including 26 struck and lost.



Reference:
Secretary's Report for the Year 2000-2001 (Draft),
Secretary's Report for the Year 2001-2002 (Draft)

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