Fishing in the Western Central Pacific is highly governed. The WCPFC, which is a treaty organization that includes Japan*, regulates what can and cannot be done in this part of the Pacific.
AFAIK, the WCPFC does limit whaling (and catch of other mammals).
*Japan is nice enough to send a lot of money to WCPFC
Meh, Douglas Adams has 'em beat:
It is a curious fact, and one to which no one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85% of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonnyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand or more variations on the same phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian 'chinanto/mnigs' which is ordinary water served at slightly above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ks' which kill cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that the names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds.
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