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＞Science Magazine > 1 December 2000 > Baker etal., pp. 1695-1696
[ Scientific Whaling: Source of Illegal Products for Market?]
Japan's scientific whaling program, run by the Institute of Cetacean Research,
receives much criticism, as Dennis Normile discusses in his News Focus article
"Japan's whaling program carries heavy baggage" (29 Sept., p. 2264), but
Normile does not consider the most serious problem-the sale of products from
this program acts as a cover for undocumented or illegal products from protected
whales (1). Using molecular genetic methods, we have identified eight species of
baleen whales, as well as sperm whales, beaked whales, killer whales, dolphins,
porpoises, domestic sheep, and horses, among nearly 700 "whale" products
purchased in Japanese markets from 1993 to 1999 (2, 3) (see the
supplementary table available at
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fuli/290/5497/1695/DC1). This diversity of
baleen whale species is contrary to the expectation that scientific hunting of
minke whales is the only source of products since the 1986 global whaling
moratorium (products from the scientific hunting of Bryde's and sperm whales
initiated in 2000 have not yet been released to the market).
Six of the baleen whale species (the fin, sei, Bryde's, blue/fin hybrid, gray, and
humpback) and the sperm whale are protected by international agreements
dating to 1989 or earlier. Overall, these protected species accounted for about
10% of whale products from the Japanese markets (excluding products from
small cetaceans). The documented sale of products from gray and humpback
whales, protected since 1937 and 1966, respectively, is particularly disturbing.
The Asian gray whale is considered one of the most endangered population of
whales in the world, yet is being sold under cover of products from scientific
whaling. The Asian humpback whale lags well behind other populations in
recovery, perhaps as a consequence of this hidden exploitation.