Whaling districts in the Faroe Islands

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Whaling districts in the Faroe Islands. The hunting of pilot whales is an important traditional practice in the Faroe Islands. Catches of whales are shared largely without the exchange of money among the participants in a hunt and residents of the local district where they are landed. However concerns about the survival of many whale species world-wide has prompted increased attention being paid to sustainable management. Regulations divide the Faroes into 9 whaling districts with a total of 23 authorised whaling bays. In each district the hunt is supervised by a sheriff, with publically elected foremen for each bay. The Ministry of Fisheries of the Faroe Islands is responsible for the administration of whaling regulations and for coordinating Faroese participation in international scientific conservation bodies which deal with the management of whale stocks.
Sources Johanna Roto (University of Helsinki, FInland)
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Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
Appears in Vital Arctic Graphics (2004 edition)
Published 2004
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