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MRB-2026-006979
Bequia, last place in the Western Hemisphere with an IWC-sanctioned aboriginal subsistence whale hunt
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The island of Bequia holds an International Whaling Commission aboriginal subsistence whaling quota, a tradition introduced by whaler William Thomas Wallace in 1875, making it the only community in the Western Hemisphere still permitted to hunt humpback whales.
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