Editing Whaling (section)

=== Canada ===
{{Main|Whaling in Canada}}
[[File:Beluga Hunt Salluit.jpg|thumb|Young butchered [[Beluga whale|beluga]] on the beach of the [[Inuit]] village of [[Salluit]], [[Quebec]], July 2001]]
Canadians kill about 600 narwhals per year.<ref name="narwhals" /> They kill 100 belugas per year in the [[Beaufort Sea]],<ref name="sar2017">{{Cite web |url=https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/webdam/download/64132759 |title=Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessments, 2017 (draft) |last=Muto |first=M.M., V. T. Helker, R. P. Angliss, B. A. Allen, P. L. Boveng, J.M. Breiwick, M. F. Cameron, P. J. Clapham, S. P. Dahle, M. E. Dahlheim, B. S. Fadely, M.C. Ferguson, L. W. Fritz, R. C. Hobbs, Y. V. Ivashchenko, A. S. Kennedy, J.M. London, S. A. Mizroch, R. R. Ream, E. L. Richmond, K. E. W. Shelden, R. G. Towell, P. R. Wade, J. M. Waite, and A. N. Zerbini |date=2017 |website=Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA |access-date=2018-04-08}}</ref><ref name="sar-draft">{{Cite web |url=https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-protection/draft-marine-mammal-stock-assessment-reports |title=Draft Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports, NOAA Fisheries |last=Fisheries |first=NOAA |date=2018-01-31 |website=www.fisheries.noaa.gov |language=EN-US |access-date=2018-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428225802/https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/marine-mammal-protection/draft-marine-mammal-stock-assessment-reports |archive-date=2018-04-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
300 in northern Quebec ([[Nunavik]]),<ref name="nunatsiak">{{Cite news |url=http://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/65674nunaviks_beluga_season_closes_early/ |title=Nunatsiaq News 2016-08-22: NEWS: Nunavik's beluga season closes early |last=Rogers |first=Sarah |date=2016-08-22 |work=Nunatsiaq News |access-date=2018-04-07 |language=en}}</ref> and an unknown number in [[Nunavut]]. The [[Beluga whale#Beluga catches by location|total annual kill]] in Beaufort and Quebec areas varies between 300 and 400 belugas per year. Numbers are not available for Nunavut since 2003, when the [[Arviat]] area, with about half Nunavut's hunters, killed 200–300 belugas, though the authors say hunters resist giving complete numbers.<ref name="suluk">{{Cite journal |last=Suluk  |first=Thomas K., and Sherrie L. Blakney  |date=2008 |title=Land Claims and Resistance to the Management of Harvester Activities in Nunavut |url=http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic61-S-62.pdf |journal=Arctic |volume=61 |issue=5 |pages=62–70 |via=University of Calgary |doi=10.14430/arctic102 |hdl=10535/5552 |hdl-access=free |access-date=2018-04-08 |archive-date=2017-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921214017/http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic61-s-62.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Harvested meat is sold through shops and supermarkets in northern communities where whale meat is a component of the traditional diet.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Krupnik|first=Igor|year=1993|title=Prehistoric Eskimo Whaling in the Arctic: Slaughter of Calves or Fortuitous Ecology?|journal=Arctic Anthropology|volume=30|issue=1|pages=1–12|jstor=40316325}}</ref> Hunters in [[Hudson Bay]] rarely eat beluga meat. They give a little to dogs and leave the rest for wild animals.<ref name="hoover" /> Other areas may dry the meat for later consumption by humans. An average of one or two vertebrae and one or two teeth per beluga or narwhal are carved and sold.<ref name="hoover" /> One estimate of the annual gross value received from Beluga hunts in Hudson Bay in 2013 was {{CAD|600,000}} for 190 belugas, or {{CAD|3,000}} per beluga, and{{CAD|530,000}} for 81 narwhals, or {{CAD|6,500}} per narwhal. However the net income, after subtracting costs in time and equipment, was a loss of {{CAD|60}} per person for belugas and {{CAD|7}} per person for narwhals. Hunts receive subsidies, but they continue as a tradition rather than for the money, and the economic analysis noted that whale watching may be an alternate revenue source. Of the gross income, {{CAD|550,000}} was for beluga skin and meat, to replace beef, pork and chickens which would otherwise be bought, {{CAD|50,000}} was received for carved vertebrae and teeth. {{CAD|370,000}} was for narwhal skin and meat, {{CAD|150,000}} was received for tusks, and carved vertebrae and teeth of males, and {{CAD|10,000}} was received for carved vertebrae and teeth of female narwhals.<ref name="hoover" />

The [[Whale and Dolphin Conservation]] says:{{when|date=September 2018}} "Canada has pursued a policy of marine mammal management which appears to be more to do with political expediency rather than conservation."

Canada left the IWC in 1982, and the only IWC-regulated species currently harvested by the Canadian Inuit is the bowhead whale.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2005773.stm | work=BBC News |title= The Inuit case for whaling | date=2002-05-24 |first=Mike |last=Fox}}</ref> As of 2004, the limit on bowhead whale hunting allows for the hunt of one whale every two years from the Hudson Bay-Foxe Basin population, and one whale every 13 years from the Baffin Bay-Davis Strait population.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/40213/news/nunavut/40213_09.html |newspaper= Nunatsiaq News |title= Study approves limited bowhead whale hunt |access-date= 2013-08-07 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141129035426/http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/40213/news/nunavut/40213_09.html |archive-date= 2014-11-29 |url-status= dead }}</ref>