Sentences with phrase «scientific whaling program»

The representatives of Japan's scientific whaling program claim that whaling directly benefits the areas affected by the 2011 tsunami.

When Japan announced its scientific whaling program in 1987, Japanese Fisheries Minister Moriyoshi Sato told its citizens, «The government will do its utmost to find ways to maintain the nation's whaling in the form of research or other forms.»

Consequently, little is known about them, despite their being the most common whale in Antarctica and the objects of Japan's controversial scientific whaling program.

Friedlaender says his research casts doubt on Japan's scientific whaling program, which has purported to study minke feeding biology and has killed between 240 and 860 of the animals every year since 1988.

Specifically, in 1999, HSI hatched an idea to challenge Japan at the International Court of Justice for its so - called scientific whaling programs.

Not exact matches

Tokyo's decades - old and disputed «scientific whaling» program suffered a blow in March when the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in a surprise ruling, ordered a halt to annual hunts in the Southern Ocean.

Japan joined an international moratorium on commercial whaling in 1982, but continued with «scientific» whaling programs that it claimed were exempt from the agreement.

Thirty - two scientists are calling for an end to the International Whaling Commission's (IWC's) current program for reviewing «scientific whaling» proWhaling Commission's (IWC's) current program for reviewing «scientific whaling» prowhaling» proposals.

In its statement, IWC points out its reviews and reports «have been widely debated and referenced by parties on all sides of the [scientific whaling] debate including the 2014 ruling of the International Court of Justice,» which found that Japan's whaling program was not about science.

The court ruled that Japan's JARPA II program, which sought to take some 850 minke whales, 50 fin whales, and 50 humpback whales, was not for the purposes of scientific research as stipulated in the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.

But it also drew up a New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean (NEWREP - A) that calls for taking 333 minke whales a year for the next 12 years in addition to other nonlethal research.

The New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean replaces a similar project halted by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague last March.

Iceland's increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC's conservation program because: (1) Iceland's commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland's harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC.

Japan's unilateral resumption of its so - called «scientific» hunt in the Southern Ocean last year is a slap in the face not just for the International Whaling Commission but also for the rule of law, as the International Court of Justice clearly ruled Japan's previous Antarctic «research» program to be illegal.

While we can all agree that Japan's scientific research program - under which it claims the prerogative to hunt 1,000 or so whales every year - is merely a front for a commercial whaling enterprise, we shouldn't have to resort to the type of vicious tactics employed by Watson and his crew to block its activities.