What is the environmental impact of whaling?
The Truth behind ‘scientific whaling’ The Japanese invented the concept of ‘scientific’ whaling in 1987 as a way round the moratorium on commercial whaling instituted by the the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Their research is not really research. It is an excuse for supplying whale meat on the Japanese market, though that market is dying. The science they perform consists of DNA sampling, physical measurements such as earbone size, age ID, and most importantly, the contents in the digestive tract. http://archive.greenpeace.org/whales/ice… http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/wo… http://www.wspa.org.uk/Search.aspx?keywo…