The Truth Behind the Whaling Dispute

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ID Institute of Cetacean Research

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CONTENTS

Prologue: 9

Is fish going to disappear from the Japanese market!?!

- Plight of fishermen due to overprotection of whales

Chapter I: 19

Whales offer a solution to the food crisis

- If the present situation persists, there will be no fish left in the sea !?

- “Save the whales” destroys the ecosystem

- Whales can provide valuable protein to mankind faced with a population explosion

- A scientific rationale for sustainable whaling based on information revealed by the Japanese whale

research in the Antarctic

- Anti-whaling is NOT an international opinion

Chapter II: 57

Goblins that manipulate International Whaling Commission (IWC)

- Tyranny of majority at IWC moving to bury “whaling”

- Scientific findings are distorted by the IWC

- Majority Governments are manipulated by anti-whaling NGOs

- Anti-whaling organizations assert nonsense to block the resumption of whaling

- “Every single whale must be saved” is a concept that flouts the Convention

- Infantile cynicism by anti-whaling nations

- Anti-whaling nations hide hazardous factors of whale watching

- Why Japan chooses to stay in the IWC for the time being

Chapter III: 112

Unmasking Anti-whaling “Environmental” organizations

- Anti-whaling propaganda is a tool for effective fund raising

- Greenpeace’s attack on the Antarctic research fleet demonstrates their mean and cowardly tactics



- “Environmental” NGOs keep harassing the developing nations

- A debatable question; “Dolphin meat on the Japanese market is highly contaminated” ?

Chapter IV: 150

Toward the sustainable and permanent use of abundant and renewable whale resources

- Kyoto Agreement is the basis for Japan’s commitment to new sustainable whaling

- Transparencies sets the IWC back to normal

- Anti-whaling fortitude getting disrupted

- Countdown to the opening of New Sustainable Whaling