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North Pacific Fur Seal Convention
Wikipedia Summary International efforts to save the severely depleted North Pacific Fur Seals. Resulted in an international treaty between the United State, Great Britain, Japan and Russia, primarily focused at commercial harvesting in the Bering Sea. It prohibited open-water seal hunting and acknowledged the United States' jurisdiction in managin the on-shore hunting of seals for commerical puposes. -
Convention for the Regulation of Whaling in Geneva
The first positive step on an international level to regulate whaling throughout the world, and particularly to bring order and control into the Antartic whale fishery, was the Convention for the Regulation of Whaling signed in Geneva in 1931 (League of Nations Treaty Series, CLV, 349). The convention applied to all waters, including both the high seas and national and territorial waters, but was only applicable to baleen whales and provided excemptions for aboriginal sudsistence whaling. -
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972
The principal law for guiding marine mammal conservation and management policy, and one in which the public became directly involved.
