Balaenoptera bonaerensis (Burmeister, 1867)
Minke whale

 

Conservation Status:

• Protected by the whaling moratorium of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) since 1985;
• Listed in Annex 1 (threatened species) of the International Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) (opposed by Japan and Norway)
• Listed in Annex C1 (strictly protected) of Regulation 3626/82 of the European Union;
• Protected by the US Marine Mammals Protection Act (MMPA)
• Listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a species of which "insufficient information" is available;
• Protected in Peru since 1985.
  

Distribution in Peru:	Historic threats:
Unknown. In 1993, two young whales where caught as by-catch off Pucusana.	Whaling.

Present threats:

So called "scientific whaling" by Japanese whalers

 

 

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