Editing Whaling (section)

=== Whaling catches by location ===
These totals include great whales: counts from IWC<ref name="total catch">{{Cite web |url=https://iwc.int/total-catches |title=Total Catches |website=iwc.int |language=en |access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref> and WDC<ref name="wdc">{{Cite web |url=https://us.whales.org/whaling-facts |title=Whaling in Numbers |date=November 2017 |website=WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation |language=en |access-date=2018-11-27 |archive-date=2018-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128075241/https://us.whales.org/whaling-facts |url-status=dead }}</ref>
and IWC Summary Catch Database version 6.1, July 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ulqwxv1nz794f4z/AABXkNwPtZ1L1WuLogcv4xWEa?dl= |title=IWCDBv6.1 |date=July 2016 |website=IWC |language=en |access-date=2018-12-22}}</ref>

The IWC database is supplemented by [[Whaling in the Faroe Islands#Catch statistics|Faroese]] catches of pilot whales,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.whaling.fo:80/numberswhalingandani.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080612233347/http://www.whaling.fo/numberswhalingandani.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-06-12 |title=Whaling Information |last=Zoological Department, Museum of Natural History |date=2008-06-12 |website=Faroe islands Department of Foreign Affairs |access-date=2018-12-22 }}</ref>
Greenland's and Canada's catches of narwhals (data 1954–2014),<ref name="narwhals" /> belugas from multiple sources shown in the [[Beluga whale]] article, Indonesia's catches of sperm whales,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/in-for-the-kill-last-of-the-ancient-whalers-20080308-gds4b1.html |title=In for the kill, last of the ancient whalers |last=Broadhead |first=Ivan |date=2008-03-08 |access-date=2018-12-22 |language=en |journal=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://spiceislandsblog.com/2015/10/23/the-whale-hunters-of-lamalera/ |title=The Whale Hunters of Lamalera |last=Burnet |first=Ian |date=2015-10-23 |website=spiceislandsblog |language=en |access-date=2018-12-22}}</ref> and bycatch in Korea.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iwc.int/scprogress|title=Progress Reports|website=iwc.int}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://portal.iwc.int/login|title=International Whaling Commission: Portal|website=portal.iwc.int}}</ref>

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|+Whales caught, by country and species, 2010–2014
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!Country||Practice||Total||Minke||Belugas||Narwhals||Pilot Whales||Gray||Sei||Fin||Bowhead||Bryde's||Sperm||Humpback||Orca
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!Total||||21,008||5,663||4,831||4,548||3,699||642||486||460||323||189||108||57||2
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|Canada||Aboriginal||4,510||||1,626||2,870||||||||||15||||||||
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|Greenland||Aboriginal||3,953||875||1,316||1,679||||||||37||4||||||42||
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|Faroe Islands||Aboriginal||3,698||||||||3,698||||||||||||||||
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|Norway||Commercial||2,795||2,795||||||||||||||||||||||
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|Japan||Commercial||2,080||1,396||||||||||486||3||||187||8||||
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|USA||Aboriginal||1,887||||1,586||||||||||||301||||||||
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|Russia||Aboriginal||948||||303||||||642||||||3||||||||
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|Iceland||Commercial||648||229||||||||||||419||||||||||
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|South Korea||Commercial||376||368||||||1||||||1||||2||||2||2
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|Indonesia||Aboriginal||100||||||||||||||||||||100||||
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|St. Vincent + Grenadines||Aboriginal||13||||||||||||||||||||||13||
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Most of the whale species in the table are not considered endangered by the IUCN ("least concern" or "data deficient"). Only the [[sei whale]] is classified as "endangered", and the [[fin whale]] is classified as "vulnerable" by the IUCN.