Scientists may like to see themselves as a race apart, but without the skills of professional whalers Japan's research program would be grounded.

Whatever their detractor may say, Japan's biologists take their work seriously.
Extracting ear plugs to discover the age of a whale.
Taking detailed body measurements, a key to growth rates.

IMAGERY OVER SUBSISTENCE.
Taken from the Nisshin Maru No. 3 in 1991, these photographs show Greenpeace doing what Greenpeace does best:
posing for pictures. Having transported a crew from Britain's television station ITN to the Tasman Sea, Greenpeace put on a show for the camera.
Note how the message "No whaling. Turn back" appeared in reverse to the Japanese crew for whom it was ostensibly intended. The real audience was millions of television viewers.

Little is known about dwarf minke whales as they were always ignored by commercial whalers, but until other IWC scientists accept the Japanese view that they are a separate subspecies from the ordinal form, they will continue to be taken in accordance with the random sampling procedure being used. A Greenpeace photograph of a dwarf minke taken in 1992 appeared in the Western press with a caption describing the whale as a "baby". "Baby" minke whale do not migrate to the Antarctic.

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Dwarf minke whale in the Antartctic Ocean has the following characteristics.

1. It has white patch on the flipper.
2. Size is smaller (8 meter in maximum) than normal Southern Homisphere minke whale.
3. Genetic characteristics resembles North Pacific minke whale.

Since biological study suggested it is a independent subspecies whose population is small, it has later been excluded from sampling exploitation.

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