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Glossary
Agricultural: relating to the practice of farming, where plants and animals used for food and other useful purposes are produced and sold.
Cetaceans: whales, dolphins, and porpoises
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): an international agreement whose purpose is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. About 150 countries belong to CITES.
Cultural: those everyday practices, beliefs and social arrangements that characterize a particular society.
Ecological: the relationships or interactions existing between living things and their environment.
Equitable: dealing with people in a fair and equal manner.
Ethics: beliefs, moral values about right and wrong
Free-range animals: free roaming, wild, not caged animals
International Whaling Commission (IWC): the IWC is an inter-governmental organization that held its first meeting in 1949. It was formed to govern whaling by rules set out in the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW). The mandate of IWC is to manage whaling in such a way as to achieve the "orderly development of the whaling industry". The IWC only has jurisdiction over the large cetaceans (for example, the blue whale, bowhead, humpback, gray, minke, and sperm whale. Only countries that are members of IWC are bound by the decisions of the IWC. About 50 countries are members of the IWC.
Livestock: farm animals, non-wild animals, such as chickens, cows, pigs and sheep.
Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA): a national act designed to protect, conserve and manage marine mammals within the nation that has passed that act in their parliament or congress (for example, New Zealand and the USA).
Millenium: a thousand years (plural: Millenia)
Opportunistic: to take advantage of an unplanned opportunity (for example, finding a beached whale, or coming across a whale while fishing or traveling at sea) rather than deliberately setting out to hunt a whale.
Quota: the number of animals allowed to be hunted or removed from a managed wildlife population.
Subsistence: the means of obtaining the necessities of life.
Sustainable: using natural resources in such a way that they do not become depleted or permanently damaged.
Sustenance: obtaining or providing food or nutrition.
Synthetic: man-made, not obtained directly from natural sources.
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK): wisdom of the elders; knowledge possessed by a society that is passed down from generation to generation
Transmission: communication, passing information from one person or source to others.
Utilize or utilizing: to make use of, to consume.
World Council of Whalers (WCW): an international non-governmental organization founded in 1997 to provide a forum and voice for whaling peoples around the world. The WCW mission includes supporting whaling communities' rights to continue their sustainable and equitable use of marine living resources for food, and to encourage greater understanding and respect for the continuing cultural, social and economic importance of whaling for these communities.