Commercial whaling by another name. The illegality of Japan's scientific whaling: Response to Dan Goodman

Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-187

  Papastavrou, Vassili ^a   Ramage, Patrick ^a  

^a International Fund for Animal Welfare   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL LAW; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WHALING;

JAPAN;

EID: 77952932823     PISSN: 13880292     EISSN: 15481476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13880292.2010.486727     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. D. Goodman, Japan's Research Whaling Is Not Unlawful and Does Not Violate CITES Trade Rules, 13 J. INT'L WILDLIFE L. & POL'Y (2010), this issue.
2. Both reports are available from http://www.ifaw.org/legalpanelreports
3. ThepanelmembersoftheParisReportwereProfessorPhilippeSands,AmbassadorAlbertoSzekely,Ambassador William Taft IV, Professor Laurence Boisson De Chazournes, Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Professor Donald Rothwell, and Kate Cook (rapporteur). The panel members of the London Report were Professor Peter Sand, Professor Philippe Sands, Ambassador Alberto Szekely (co-ordinator), and Kate Cook (rapporteur).
4. P.H. Sand, Japan's "Research Whaling" in the Antarctic Southern Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean in the Face of the Endangered Species Convention (CITES), 17 REV. EUR. COMMUNITY & INT'L ENVTL. L. 56 (2008).
5. P.H. Sand, Japan's "Forschungswalfang" und das Washingtoner Artenschutzabkommen (CITES), in FRIEDEN IN FREIHEIT/PEACE IN LIBERTY/PAIX EN LIBERTÉ: FESTSCHRIFT FOR MICHAEL BOTHE 681 (A. Fischer-Lescano et al., eds., Nomos-Dike, 2008).
6. P.H. Sand, "Scientific Whaling": Whither Sanctions for Non-Compliance with International Law?, 18 FINNISH Y.B. INT'L L. 187 (2007).
7. IWC, 8 J. CETACEAN RES. & MGMT. 49 (2006 Suppl.).
8. For a brief summary of the scientific issues, see, for example, V. Morell, Killing Whales for Science?, 316:5824 SCIENCE 532 (2007).
9. N. Gales, T Kasuya, P.J. Clapham, and R. L. Brownell, Japan's Whaling Plan Under Scrutiny: Useful Science or Unregulated Commercial Whaling?, 435 NATURE 883 (2005);
10. P. Corkeron, Reconsidering the Science of Scientific Whaling, 375 MARINE ECO. PROGRESS SERIES 305 (2009).
11. Goodman relies on an informal e-mail from the Secretary-General of CITES to the UK Management Authority (dated November 7, 2007; i.e., after the London Report) suggesting that Japan is "solely responsible" for a determination as to whether imports are commercial or scientific. Yet, the CITES Secretariat has no legal mandate or authority whatsoever for authentic treaty interpretation, which is the undisputed prerogative of the Conference of the Parties (by way of conference resolutions adopted by a two-thirds majority).
12. see P.H. Sand, Endangered Species: International Protection, in MAX PLANCK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW (R. Wolfrum ed., Oxford University Press, 2009, available online at http://www.mpepil.com).
13. Introduction by S. Ohsumi, in S. Ohsumi and Y. Umezaki, MISINFORMATION: THE PROTEST AGAINST JAPAN'S SCIENTIFIC WHALING 3 (Institute of Cetacean Research, March 1, 2000).
14. See for example, The Australian (December 11, 2009), where Okada is quoted as saying, "We should try to discuss this issue in a calm, not emotional way. Because our ancestors, we have a tradition in Japan where we have been eating whalemeat": http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/well-continue-continuewhale-kill-japan-insists/story-e6frg6so-1225809220883