TROUBLED WATERS - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Contents
List of contributors II
Foreword IV
ONE Introductory section 1
Chapter 1 Executive summary 2
Chapter 2 A background to whaling 6
Chapter 3 An introduction to animal welfare 13
Chapter 4 Whales – individuals, societies and cultures 15
Chapter 5 The IWC and whale welfare 30
TWO Whale killing 37
Chapter 6 Commercial and
Aboriginal subsistence whaling 38
Chapter 7 The small cetacean dimension 54
Chapter 8 Weather, sea condition and ship motions
affecting accuracy in whaling 63
Chapter 9 The potential stress effects of whaling and
the welfare implications for hunted cetaceans 69
Chapter 10 Euthanasia of cetaceans 78
Chapter 11 Review of criteria for determining death
and insensibility in cetacea 84
THREE Whaling in the twenty-first century 91
Chapter 12 A comparison between slaughterhouse
standards and methods used during whaling 92
Chapter 13 Ethics and whaling under special permit 104
Chapter 14 Legal precedents for whale protection 111
FOUR Conclusions 123
Chapter 15 Whaling and welfare 124
Chapter 16 Summary of conclusions 134
Glossary 136
Appendix I Global coalition members 137
Appendix II Colour plates 140
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