TROUBLED WATERS - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
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A REVIEW OF THE WELFARE IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN WHALING ACTIVITIES<br />
IWC 1979a. Chairman’s Report of the 30th Annual Meeting Appendix 4: Reporting data relative to Humane<br />
Killing. Rep. int. Whal. Commn 29 p.32.<br />
IWC 1979b. Report of the International Whaling Commission. Annex J: Report of the sub-committee on humane<br />
killing techniques 29:90-2.<br />
IWC 1980. Report of the Technical Committee Working Group on Humane Killing.<br />
IWC 1981.Report of the Workshop on Humane Killing Techniques. IWC/33/15.<br />
IWC1985. Chairman’s Report of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting. Rep.int. Whal.Comm. 35:19-20.<br />
IWC 2001. UK Paper on Collection of <strong>Whale</strong> Killing Data. Submitted by the United Kingdom to the 2001<br />
IWC Working Group on <strong>Whale</strong> Killing Methods <strong>and</strong> Associated Welfare Issues. IWC/53/WKM&AWI5.<br />
RSPCA 2003. Report of the International Scientific Workshop on Sentience <strong>and</strong> Potential for Suffering in<br />
Hunted <strong>Whale</strong>s. Hosted by the RSPCA, 14-14th June 2001, London. Document submitted for information by<br />
the UK to the IWC Workshop on <strong>Whale</strong> Killing Methods, 7-9 June 2003, Berlin.<br />
Footnotes<br />
1 Signatories comprising the governments of: the Union of South Africa, the US, the Argentine Republic, the<br />
Commonwealth of Australia, Germany, the UK, Northern Irel<strong>and</strong>, the Irish Free State, New Zeal<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
Norway.<br />
2 Resolution V, United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 25th April 1958, Report of the Third<br />
Committee.<br />
3 Article III, paragraph 6 of the Schedule to the ICRW.<br />
4 The objections of Japan <strong>and</strong> the Russian Federation remain.<br />
5 The Action Plan called for: details to be provided on equipment <strong>and</strong> methods used <strong>and</strong> for cooperation in<br />
improving methods, investigation into criteria for determining death, assessments of cause of death in relation<br />
to observed time to death (using post-mortem data), provision of data on time to death <strong>and</strong> struck <strong>and</strong> lost<br />
rates in all whaling operations, including ASW (particularly noting the need for data provision <strong>and</strong> the<br />
reduction of struck <strong>and</strong> lost rates in the Greenl<strong>and</strong> beluga <strong>and</strong> narwhal hunts), <strong>and</strong> for the development of<br />
methods for determining stress indictors in hunted whales.<br />
6 Calling for Denmark to provide all ‘additional information’ on the pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Isl<strong>and</strong>s to<br />
the next annual meeting <strong>and</strong> expressing concern about the adequacy of the implementation of existing<br />
Faroese legislation.<br />
7 A resolution requesting further data on killing methods <strong>and</strong> a specific resolution referring to the killing<br />
methods employed during the pilot whale drive hunt.<br />
8 Hosted by the RSPCA (RSPCA 2003).