Whale Meat in the Japanese Diet

Authors

Robert L. Brownell Jr., NOAAFollow
Hideo Omura

Date of this Version

5-30-1980

Comments

Published in Science, New Series, Vol. 208, No. 4447 (May 30, 1980), p. 976.

Abstract

Junghans (Letters, 4 Apr., p. 6) points out several errors in Beary’s letter (14 December 1979, p. 1260) regarding the high concentrations of mercury in whale meat eaten by the Japanese. We would like to call attention to some additional errors in Beary’s letter.