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...country. But plenty slips through, and a recent study published in Science suggests that some of it comes from whales that can't be hunted legally. Investigators bought whale meat in retail markets all over ! Japan. Using DNA tests, researchers found that some of it came from fin whales, humpbacks and other protected species. "We were stunned to find humpback being sold in a Hiroshima supermarket," says Don White, president of Earthtrust, the Hawaii-based group that sponsored the study. "They've been protected since...
Using molecular genetics tests similar to those used in crime investigations, researchers discovered that several samples of whale meat for sale in Japan came from illegally hunted species, including fin and humpback. The report in the current Science found that only 8 of 17 samples were genetically consistent with those from legal catches...
There's a new use for DNA testing: tracking illegal whaling practices, according to a report in Science magazine. Researchers used portable equipment to test whale meat being sold in Japan, where the product is an expensive delicacy. The presence of protected minke, fin and humpback whales as well as dolphin were found in several of the samples, indicating that banned meat was being sold. The genetic test could provide a policing mechanism in the future...
...snail darter, which only a militant ecologist could love, whales are inherently irresistible. People crowd by the millions into aquariums and theme parks to watch belugas and killer whales go through their paces. Tens of thousands risk seasickness each year to join whale-watching cruises. Songs of the Humpback Whale, a record of cetacean squeals and groans first released in 1970, sold 100,000 copies that year and has remained a fixture in New Age record bins...
Precisely what makes the Endangered Species Act unique is that it views the % world not through man's eyes but from the high ground of the Creation. It sets no test for survival and respects the meek as it does the mighty. The humpback whale and the black rhinoceros enjoy no greater protection than the noonday snail and the lakeside daisy. Recently an inch-long unpigmented eyeless shrimp found in a sinkhole near Gainesville, Fla., joined the ranks of the imperiled. In shielding the humblest species, the act expresses its highest reverence for diversity, and has evolved into an almost...