TROUBLED WATERS - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
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Wijdicks E F M 2002. Brain death worldwide. Accepted fact but no global consensus in diagnostic criteria.Neurology 58: 20-5.Footnotes1 Norwegian quota is set at 711 for 2003.2 Japanese quota combined Japanese Antarctic Whaling Research Program (JARPA) <strong>and</strong> North Pacific WhalingResearch Program (JARPN).3 Immediately – The definition of ‘immediate’ is taken by whaling countries to mean ‘in less than 10 seconds’(times shorter than this being proposed as impossible to determine during the period immediately after theharpoon impact due to movement <strong>and</strong> splashing). In many documents, the phrase ‘instantaneous kill’ is used,but this terminology provides an inaccuracy at the heart of the language used when describing whaling, sincenot only is ‘instantaneous death’ not possible biologically (any large organism will take at least millisecondsfor neural activity to cease), but also impossible temporally as ‘instantaneous’ time is unmeasurable.4 Previous calls to refine the criteria for time to death determination – 1992 (IWC/44/18) in a report of theWorkshop on <strong>Whale</strong> Killing Methods (Item 9), 1995 (IWC/47/18) in Appendix 4 of the report of theWorkshop on <strong>Whale</strong> Killing Methods – action plan, 1995 (IWC/47/18) in Appendix 5, suggestions forresearch needs on whale killing, 1999 (IWC/51/WK15) a proposal for the study of the dying process aimedat improvement of the evaluation of killing methods, 1999 (IWC/51/WK12) – report on the Workshop on<strong>Whale</strong> Killing Methods.REVIEW OF CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING DEATH AND INSENSIBILITY IN CETACEA89