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Nature 435, 883-884 (16 June 2005) | doi:10.1038/435883a; Published online 15 June 2005

Japan's whaling plan under scrutiny

Nicholas J. Gales1, Toshio Kasuya2, Phillip J. Clapham3 & Robert L. Brownell, Jr4

  1. Nicholas J. Gales is at the Australian Antarctic Division, Channel Highway, Kingston 7050, Tasmania, Australia.
  2. Toshio Kasuya is at the Teikyo University of Science and Technology, Uenohara, Yamanashi 409-0193, Japan.
  3. Phillip J. Clapham is at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Washington 98115, USA.
  4. Robert L. Brownell Jr is at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 1352 Lighthouse Avenue Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA.
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Useful science or unregulated commercial whaling? Nicholas J. Gales, Toshio Kasuya, Phillip J. Clapham and Robert L. Brownell Jr consider the scientific merits of Japan's whaling activities.

Eighteen years after initiating scientific whaling in Antarctic waters, Japan presented a new and more ambitious programme to the International Whaling Commission (IWC); the proposal was made in early June during the IWC's annual meeting in Ulsan, Korea. Japan now wishes to more than double its annual catch of Antarctic minke whales (from about 440 to 935), and to expand lethal sampling to include an additional yearly take of 50 humpback and 50 fin whales.

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