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Democracy pummelled as IWC meets in Shimonoseki, 2002

Last edited 20 November 2002 at 9:00am
International Whaling Commission 53: Greenpeace keep an eye on proceedings

International Whaling Commission 53: Greenpeace keep an eye on proceedings

There were no speeding inflatable boats, no water hoses, but the democratic process took a pummelling at the IWC meeting in Shimonoseki, as Japan used its bought voting bloc to stop sanctuaries and deny indigenous people subsistence quotas.

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Life on board

Last edited 19 September 2002 at 8:00am
Life on board

Life on board

Every year, the Japanese whaling fleet sets sail to Antarctic waters to hunt whales in the Southern Oceans Whale Sanctuary. These bogus 'scientific' operations violate the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) sanctuary regime and undermine international law.

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Whaling commission scientists reveal only 75 Antarctic blue whales seen in past 20 years

Last edited 20 May 2002 at 8:00am
20 May, 2002

In spite of nearly four decades of protection Antarctic blue whales show little sign of recovery, according to the latest science from the International Whaling Commission (IWC). The worrying new findings were released on the first day of the annual International Whaling Commission conference in Shimonoseki, Japan, where the worldwide ban on commercial whaling is hanging in the balance.

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What is wrong with whaling

Last edited 17 May 2002 at 8:00am
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21 March, 2007

Publication date: Dec 2001

Summary
Commercial whaling is one of the most environmentally destructive practices of all time and was responsible in the last century for taking many populations to the brink of extinction Yet the Fisheries Agency of Japan is determined to secure a return to large-scale commercial whaling and a hunt taking thousands of whales every year.

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Unsustainable and uncontrollable - what's wrong with the RMS

Last edited 17 May 2002 at 8:00am
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21 March, 2007

Publication date: May 2002

Summary
Despite a history of repeated failure to control commercial whaling under a succession of management regimes, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) is currently in the process of developing a new set of rules, known as the Revised Management Scheme or RMS, which could be used to manage commercial whaling operations at some point in the near future and, if agreed, could herald the lifting of the moratorium on all commercial whaling.

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Rigging the system

Last edited 17 May 2002 at 8:00am
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21 March, 2007

How Japan is buying control of the IWC

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The Truth behind: "The Truth Behind the Whaling Dispute"

Last edited 17 May 2002 at 8:00am
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21 March, 2007

Publication date: May 2002

Summary
Masayuki Komatsu, Japan's deputy commissioner to the International Whaling Commission, has written a book that has been released by the Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR), an NGO established by the whaling industry. Entitled The Truth Behind the Whaling Dispute, the book is full of unsupported claims and accusations, so many that this paper seeks to address only the major points.

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Science, Culture or Commerce?

Last edited 17 May 2002 at 8:00am
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21 March, 2007

Publication date: May 2002

Summary
On the 6th November 2001, the Japanese whaling fleet left for Antarctic waters to hunt 440 minke whales. Japan claims that this hunt is for 'scientific research' but in reality it is just one tactic in a long-term strategy orchestrated by the Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) to re-establish large-scale commercial whaling.

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Scientific whaling the true story

Last edited 17 May 2002 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

A critique of the fisheries agency of Japan's document "What Are Japan's Whale Research Programmes".

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Protestors call on the Japanese government

Last edited 23 April 2002 at 8:00am
23 April, 2002

Worldwide condemnation of Japan's "scientific" whaling began this week in the countdown to the next International Whaling Commission meeting in Shimonoseki, Japan. Greenpeace activists from Argentina to the UK gathered at Japanese embassies to deliver their protests in the form of whale meat boxes, petitions, letters, postcards, e-mails and faxes. Copied from the originals used by the Japanese whaling fleet , the boxes highlight the commercial reality of so-called "scientific" whaling.

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