Thar she blows!

[james]

Another nail in the eventual coffin of the Japanese 'scientific' whaling programme?

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11001

[Mulboyne]

"Essentially, this (analysis) would mean Japan would no longer be able to kill whales in order to determine their age," he said. "So therefore, they would have to either modify their research program to stop killing whales or admit they are really doing commercial whaling with science as an excuse and therefore change the nature of their whaling program."

Given Japan's growing control of the IWC, it may not be long before they are happy to identify some of their activities as commercial whaling rather than scientific research so I'm not sure that this will make much difference.

[Big Booger]

I hope one day China decides to open up a science research program of its own... to determine the mentality of Japanese people who support whaling... of course they'll have to kill a few for science to do this.