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Scientific whaling |
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IWC reports |
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Japanese scientific whaling |
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Miscellaneous |
Relevant
extracts from the Reports of the International Whaling Commission
The Whaling Library site contains the
extracts from the IWC Chairman's Reports on the issue of scientific whaling. The following
links are to the relevant extracts from recent years:
Scientific
Permits
Annex H: Summary statement
supporting the use of lethal removal and refuting its use, as it pertains to the
collection of information on stock structure
Two extracts from the Report of the Scientific Committee in the 48th Report of the
International Whaling Commission (1998), reproduced on the Whaling Library site.
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Literature on-line |
Whaling,
Science and the IWC
Paper by Ray Gambell, IWC Secretary, posted on the Whaling
Library site.
The IWC, Scientific Permits
and Japan Japan and the
Management of Whales
Information from IWC website.
Brief overview from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
NOAA Whales page
Contains information on Japanese scientific whaling and US actions in
relation to the programs.
A List of Papers
Submitted by the ICR to the IWC Scientific Committee
On the Whaling Library site.
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society: Scientific Whaling
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Preliminary
Review and Evaluation of Scientific Whaling from 1986-1996 Report on Japan's scientific whaling programme. |
Greenpeace International:
Japanese whaling page
Part of its Oceans Campaign section.
Includes the following reports:
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Japanese whaling - an uncontrollable industry |
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Japan: Whaling Becomes an Industry Out of Control (also in pdf) |
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Greenpeace's campaign to stop whaling in the Antarctic |
Japanese
whaling
Brief page from the Greenpeace whales
site.
Special
Action Alert - Japan
Up-to-date overview of the Japanese scientific whaling issue from Whales in Danger, an anti-whaling organization.
Japan:
Making a Science of Killing Conservation Efforts
Stop
Japan's Slaughter of the Great Sperm Whale
Two papers from the Cetacean
Society International's Whales Alive! journal.
ANTARCTIC WHALING PROGRAMME (JARPA)
Brief Outline of
Japanese Research Whaling Program in the Antarctic (JARPA)
Outline on the Whaling Library site.
Overview edited by the Japanese Fisheries Agency
The Facts,
"Facts" and Fiction of Scientific Whaling
Article by Fukuzo
Nagasaki in Science & Technology In Japan Vol. 8, No. 31 (1989)
The Moratorium and
Japanese Research on Whales in the Antarctic - an Overview
Another article by Fukuzo
Nagasaki, from 1995.
The Necessity of
Employing Lethal Methods in the Study of Whale Resources
Paper by Seiji
Ohsumi (1995)
Japanese Research
Whaling
Article by a Japanese journalist, published by the ICR in 1993.
Japanese Research on
Antarctic Whale Resources
Report by the Institute of Cetacean Research (1991).
Overview of Japanese scientific whaling, published by the Institute of Cetacean Research (1992). Split into the following sections:
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Introduction |
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The Players |
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Keeping Industry Intact? |
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Money Flows |
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Verdict |
NORTH PACIFIC WHALING PROGRAMME (JARPN AND JARPNII)
Brief Outline of Japanese
Research Whaling Program in the North Pacific (JARPN)
Brief Outline of Second
Japanese Research Whaling Program in the North Pacific (JARPN II)
Two summaries on the Whaling Library site.
Whale Research in the
North Pacific
Paper by Kazuo Yamamura.
Scientific Research by
Japan on the Northwestern Pacific Minke Whale in 1994 and 1995
Paper by the Institute of Cetacean Research (1996).
Mandate
of the Scientific Committee
WDCS briefing on the workings of the IWC Scientific Committee.
Cetacean
Contaminant burdens: Regional examples (1999)
Contaminated Cetacean Products in Japan (2000)
Two WDCS scientific papers on contaminants found in cetaceans in Japan and the
Caribbean.
Scientific
Topics
Other relevant texts are reproduced in this section of the Whaling Library site.