Further Scrutiny of Scientific Whaling

Authors

Robert L. Brownell Jr., Southwest Fisheries Science CenterFollow
Michael F. Tillman, Southwest Fisheries Science CenterFollow
Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Applicata al Mare, Via di Casalotti 300, 00166 Roma, Italia
Per Berggren, Stockholm University
Andrew J. Read, Duke UniversityFollow

Date of this Version

12-1-2000

Comments

Published in Science, New Series, Vol. 290, No. 5497 (Dec. 1, 2000), p. 1696.

Abstract

Normile reports on Japan's expanded scientific whaling program and notes that "Canada, the United States, the Soviet Union, South Africa, and Japan were among several countries that [conducted scientific whaling] before 1982 [the year the IWC passed the worldwide commercial moratorium on whaling], but in recent years Japan has stood alone." Although true, this statement omits three equally important points.