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Many cetacean populations were heavily reduced by commercial whaling, and the International Whaling Commission's commercial-whaling moratorium took effect in 1986, though some countries continue whaling under objections or outside the IWC, and many species remain threatened by ship strikes, entanglement, noise and climate change. 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"IWC commercial whaling moratorium", "typical_range": "1986", "unit": "year", "note": "effective season" }, { "quantity": "Japan left the IWC", "typical_range": "2019", "unit": "year", "note": "resumed commercial whaling in its waters" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "baleen whales such as blue and humpback whales", "sperm whales", "beaked whales", "killer whales and pilot whales as large dolphins", "river and coastal cetaceans as relatives" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "marine mammal", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "is part of", "target": "Cetacea", "why": "" }, { "relation": "includes", "target": "sperm whale", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is regulated by", "target": "International Whaling Commission", "why": "" } ], "identifiers": [], "standards_and_regulation": [ "International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling", "CITES Appendix I listings", "Marine mammal protection laws such as the US MMPA" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ 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