How to read this definition
Inclusion criteria describe evidence that can establish this activity. Exclusion criteria identify circumstances that do not establish it on that basis alone. The evaluation remains connected to its taxonomy version and supporting evidence.
Can establish this activity
Included when supported
Evidence may support involvement when it matches one or more of these inclusion criteria.
5 criteria
- 01Criterion
Include commercial entities holding a current licence, permit, quota, reservation-based authorization, or other documented legal basis for commercial whaling, while recording the jurisdiction and status separately.
- 02Criterion
Include companies that own, operate, charter, or deploy vessels for commercial whale hunting or capture.
- 03Criterion
Include entities that butcher, cut, freeze, package, can, prepare, or otherwise process whale meat or organs for commercial sale.
- 04Criterion
Include commercial rendering or processing of whale blubber, oil, organs, or other whale-derived products where the activity is part of the commercial whaling supply chain.
- 05Criterion
Include entities identified in reliable catch, landing, licence, customs, trade, port, regulatory, court, or company records as commercial whalers or processors, provided the entity and role are resolved.
Does not establish this activity on its own
Excluded on this basis alone
These circumstances do not establish this activity unless separate evidence also meets an inclusion criterion.
6 criteria
- 01Criterion
Exclude aboriginal subsistence, indigenous, community, or other non-commercial whaling whose products are not commercially marketed beyond the permitted community-use framework.
- 02Criterion
Exclude special-permit or scientific whaling and research activity where the entity does not conduct a commercial hunt or commercial sale; preserve the legal category as evidence.
- 03Criterion
Exclude consumer retail, restaurant, food-service, and preparation solely at the point of sale when the entity does not hunt or perform primary commercial processing.
- 04Criterion
Exclude seafood and marine-product processing where no whale-derived input is documented.
- 05Criterion
Exclude conservation, research, advocacy, rescue, stranding-response, and anti-whaling organizations without commercial hunting or processing.
- 06Criterion
Exclude verified ceased commercial hunting or processing from current involvement while preserving historical involvement, species, and effective dates.
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