When was the Humpback Whale put on the endangered species list?
The Humpback Whale was listed as an endangered species June 1970. Both by the state of Washington and Orgeon, and by Federal, so it was already listed when the US Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973. A ban had been enacted on “non-subsistence hunting” in 1955 by nations who were members of International Whaling Commission, or IWC, which was estabilished in 1946 to protect the North Atlantic Humpbacks. However in 1965 the protection given to the North Atlantic Humpbacks, was expanded to include the North Pacific and Southern Hemisphere populations.
