Sentences with phrase «first research whaling»

Greenpeace's Sato says the justifications for lethal methods and target samples sizes «are just like what they were for JARPA I,» Japan's first research whaling effort, which ended in 2005.

Not exact matches

The new research is the first to document handedness in blue whales and the first evidence of a marine mammal favoring a different side of its body depending on feeding depth, the researchers say.

The paper titled «First Circumpolar Assessment of Southern Hemisphere Humpback Whale Mitochondrial Genetic Variation at Multiple Scales and Implications for Management» now appears in the online version of Endangered Species Research.

In a paper published online Dec. 9, 2015, in Marine Mammal Science, a research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), has for the first time quantified the amount of drag on entangled whales that is created by towing fishing gear, such as rope, buoys, and lobster and crab traps.

Ari Friedlaender was among the first to study a group of Antarctic minke whales up close, near enough to attach research tags.

The first threat was made during the 1980s, when Norway decided to take whales «for research», also in defiance of the IWC.

Japan's whaling fleet last week departed for the southern seas for the first time since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered the nation to halt its research whaling in March 2014.

For the first time, scientists of the German Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center, Goethe University and the University of Lund in Sweden have deciphered the complete genome of the blue whale and three other rorquals.

Murdoch University research into southern right whale body condition using drone pictures has for the first time revealed the high cost on the mother of giving birth and raising a young calf.

Despite widespread criticism, the NOAA research team darted the first orca whale on February 20.

An ad hoc group within the International Whaling Commission has offered a proposal that would sanction some commercial whaling for the first time in decades while reducing the amount of whaling taking place through what amount to end runs around a longstanding whaling moratorium — like Iceland's expanding hunt of fin whales (video above) and Japan's «research» whale hunts in the ocean near AntaWhaling Commission has offered a proposal that would sanction some commercial whaling for the first time in decades while reducing the amount of whaling taking place through what amount to end runs around a longstanding whaling moratorium — like Iceland's expanding hunt of fin whales (video above) and Japan's «research» whale hunts in the ocean near Antawhaling for the first time in decades while reducing the amount of whaling taking place through what amount to end runs around a longstanding whaling moratorium — like Iceland's expanding hunt of fin whales (video above) and Japan's «research» whale hunts in the ocean near Antawhaling taking place through what amount to end runs around a longstanding whaling moratorium — like Iceland's expanding hunt of fin whales (video above) and Japan's «research» whale hunts in the ocean near Antawhaling moratorium — like Iceland's expanding hunt of fin whales (video above) and Japan's «research» whale hunts in the ocean near Antarctica.

Finally, dissection of brain tissue would be done for the very important purpose of trying to see if some abnormality exists which makes the Japanese prone to do the same kind of research on whales, when they simply could have used advanced, non-invasive technologies to track and study whales — assuming that what they really were interested in was research and not filling plates at sushi bars in the first place.

With instructions to hunt down - sorry, collect for «scientific research» - up to 1,000 whales, the Japanese sailors are setting their sights on the humpback whale for the first time in over 40 years.