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According to lethal-sampling opponent Nick Gales, age data is not needed to establish a catch limit for whaling within the framework of the Revised Management Procedure (RMP) computer modeling, which is the stated goal of the Japanese research. [43] However, deputy whaling commissioner of Japan, Joji Morishita, told BBC News that the reason for ...
Whaling for research purposes continued even after the moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. This whaling program has been criticized by environmental protection groups and anti-whaling countries, who say that the program is not for scientific research.
[1] [2] Such activism is often a response to specific conflicts with pro-whaling countries and organizations that practice commercial whaling and/or research whaling, as well as with indigenous groups engaged in subsistence whaling. Some anti-whaling factions have received criticism and legal action for extreme methods including violent direct ...
Research methodology has come under scrutiny as it has been argued that non-lethal methods of research are available [185] and that Japan's research whaling is commercial whaling in disguise. [14] The Japanese claim that the accuracy of tissue and feces samples is insufficient and lethal sampling is necessary. [186]
Environmental and animal rights groups have raised objections to the Taiji dolphin hunt on a variety of grounds, not just for animal cruelty reasons, but for health risks posed by consumption of the dolphin and whale meat. Anti-whaling groups such as Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace insist that whaling is cruel and should be regulated. The ...
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Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution. Whaling was practiced as an organized industry as early as 875 AD. By the 16th century, it had become the principal industry in the Basque coastal regions of Spain and ...
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