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seriously disrupted by the decimation of the great whales, the IWC has recently
established a sanctuary making the entire region off limits to whaling. This may
not be sufficient, and recovery of the great whales may require intervention by
selective removal of Minke Whales as proposed by Japan. If taken in the context
of the ocean ecosystems in which it would be applied, the RMP could provide a
useful baseline for adaptive management.
Acknowledgments. My service on a scientific panel assembled by the National
Marine Fisheries Service to review the IWC catch-limit algorithm provided background for this chapter. The panel was chaired by A. Rosenberg with the support
of G. Kirkwood, D. Pelka, and T. Smith. Committee members included J. Cushing, R. McKelvey, R. Myers, A.M. Starfield, G.L. Swartzman, and B. Taylor.
Thanks to E. Slooten, T. Smith, R. Spill, A.M. Starfield, and three anonymous
reviewers for comments on the manuscript.
Literature Cited
Allen KR (1980) Conservation and management of whales. University of Washington
Press, Seattle, WA
Anonymous (1993) The revised management procedures (RMP) for baleen whales. IWC
Report 45/4, Annex H. International Whaling Commission, Cambridge, UK
Belovsky GE, Bissonette JA, Dueser RD, Edwards TC Jr, Luecke CM, Ritchie ME, Slade
JB, Wagner FH (1994) Management of small populations: concepts affecting the recovery of endangered species. Wildlife Society Bulletin 22:307–316
Best PB (1988) Right Whales Eubalaena australis at Tristan da Cunha—a clue to the “nonrecovery” of depleted stocks? Biological Conservation 46:23–51
Best PB (1993) Increase rates in severely depleted stocks of Baleen Whales. ICES Journal
of Marine Science 50:169–186
Botkin DB (1990) Discordant harmonies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Boyce MS, Haney A (1997) Ecosystem management: applications for sustainable forest
and wildlife resources. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Buckland ST, Breiwick JM, Cattanach KL, Laake JL (1993) Estimated population size of
the California Grey Whale. Marine Mammal Science 9:235–249
Clark CW (1975) Mathematical bioeconomics. J Wiley, New York
Evans PGH (1987) The natural history of whales and dolphins. Facts on File, New York
Freeman MMR (1994) Science and trans-science in the whaling debate. In: Freeman
MMR, Kreuter UP (eds) Elephants and whales: resources for whom? Gordon and Breach
Science, Basel, Switzerland, pp 143–157
Freeman MMR, Kellert SR (1994) International attitudes to whales, whaling and the use of
whale products: a six-country survey. In: Freeman MMR, Kreuter UP (eds) Elephants
and whales: resources for whom? Gordon and Breach Science, Basel, Switzerland, pp
293–315
Frost S (1979) The whaling question. Friends of the Earth, San Francisco, CA
Gambell R (1973) Some effects of exploitation on reproduction in whales. Journal of
Reproduction and Fertility Supplement 19:531–551
Gambell R (1976) Population biology and the management of whales. In: Coaker TH (ed)
Applied biology, vol 1. Academic Press, New York, pp 247–343
Mark S. Boyce
seriously disrupted by the decimation of the great whales, the IWC has recently
established a sanctuary making the entire region off limits to whaling. This may
not be sufficient, and recovery of the great whales may require intervention by
selective removal of Minke Whales as proposed by Japan. If taken in the context
of the ocean ecosystems in which it would be applied, the RMP could provide a
useful baseline for adaptive management.
Acknowledgments. My service on a scientific panel assembled by the National
Marine Fisheries Service to review the IWC catch-limit algorithm provided background for this chapter. The panel was chaired by A. Rosenberg with the support
of G. Kirkwood, D. Pelka, and T. Smith. Committee members included J. Cushing, R. McKelvey, R. Myers, A.M. Starfield, G.L. Swartzman, and B. Taylor.
Thanks to E. Slooten, T. Smith, R. Spill, A.M. Starfield, and three anonymous
reviewers for comments on the manuscript.
Literature Cited
Allen KR (1980) Conservation and management of whales. University of Washington
Press, Seattle, WA
Anonymous (1993) The revised management procedures (RMP) for baleen whales. IWC
Report 45/4, Annex H. International Whaling Commission, Cambridge, UK
Belovsky GE, Bissonette JA, Dueser RD, Edwards TC Jr, Luecke CM, Ritchie ME, Slade
JB, Wagner FH (1994) Management of small populations: concepts affecting the recovery of endangered species. Wildlife Society Bulletin 22:307–316
Best PB (1988) Right Whales Eubalaena australis at Tristan da Cunha—a clue to the “nonrecovery” of depleted stocks? Biological Conservation 46:23–51
Best PB (1993) Increase rates in severely depleted stocks of Baleen Whales. ICES Journal
of Marine Science 50:169–186
Botkin DB (1990) Discordant harmonies. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Boyce MS, Haney A (1997) Ecosystem management: applications for sustainable forest
and wildlife resources. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Buckland ST, Breiwick JM, Cattanach KL, Laake JL (1993) Estimated population size of
the California Grey Whale. Marine Mammal Science 9:235–249
Clark CW (1975) Mathematical bioeconomics. J Wiley, New York
Evans PGH (1987) The natural history of whales and dolphins. Facts on File, New York
Freeman MMR (1994) Science and trans-science in the whaling debate. In: Freeman
MMR, Kreuter UP (eds) Elephants and whales: resources for whom? Gordon and Breach
Science, Basel, Switzerland, pp 143–157
Freeman MMR, Kellert SR (1994) International attitudes to whales, whaling and the use of
whale products: a six-country survey. In: Freeman MMR, Kreuter UP (eds) Elephants
and whales: resources for whom? Gordon and Breach Science, Basel, Switzerland, pp
293–315
Frost S (1979) The whaling question. Friends of the Earth, San Francisco, CA
Gambell R (1973) Some effects of exploitation on reproduction in whales. Journal of
Reproduction and Fertility Supplement 19:531–551
Gambell R (1976) Population biology and the management of whales. In: Coaker TH (ed)
Applied biology, vol 1. Academic Press, New York, pp 247–343