26 December 2019
JAPANESE
Japan Fisheries Agency cheated at the announced whaling catch quota!!
JFA publicly explained that "Capture is less than 1% of the population" and "Whaling management is per stock". However, JFA has broken these promises because they set quota off Abashiri ignoring bycatch of J-stock.
At least, commercial whaling should be managed by an international organization of which both Japan and South Korea are members based on the UNCLOS. Commercial whaling by Japan which withdrew the IWC is just violation of international law! Catch quota of J-stock minke whale allocated to Japan and Korea should be zero since only the number of bycatch exceeds the catch limit, if it is managed by an international organization under the assumption that the catch limit is less than 1% of the population of each stock.
Reference:
- Whaling Catch Quotas for 2020 | Fisheries Agency
- Population Estimates | IWC
- Recommendation about "Whaling Catch Quotas for 2020" and bycatch | Junko Sakuma, Journalist (Japanese text only)
- J-stock minke whales threatened- the reality of bycatch | Iruka and Kujira Action Network
- Characteristics of the Cetacean Bycatch in Korean Coastal Waters from 2011 to 2017 | Lee, Seulhee et al., KoreaScience
- Cruise Report of the New Scientific Whale Research Program in the western North Pacific (NEWREP-NP) in 2017 -Coastal component off Abashiri in the southern Okhotsuk Sea- | IWC SC/67B/SCSP/07
- Minke whale, the western North Pacific and the Okhotsk Sea | Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (Japanese text only)
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