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Sighting records of whales by the crew of Sado Liner operated on Sado Strait, Sea of Japan | from Apr. 1994 to Dec. 2000 |.Yoshiharu Honma (Niigata.Univ. Sch. Med.) and Yoshiaki Kogawara (Sado Line Comp.j |
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Stranding data of cetaceans collected during our activities.Tadasu K. Yamada (National Science Museum, Tokyo) and Hajime Ishikawa (Institute of Cetacean Research) |
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Histopathological findings of the brain lesions observed in the cetaceans stranded at the coast of Japan.Shimada, A., Sawada M., Morita T. (Depatment of Veterinary Pathology, Tottori University), Ando S. (Tottori Prefectural Museum), and Oike T. (Minami Chita Beach Land) |
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Further report on the histopathology of a harbor seal, Phoca largha, stranded on the@Kurobe Fishing Port, Toyama Bay, Sea of Japan. |
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A report on the gross pathological investigations of marine mammals stranded on the coasts of the Sea of Japan since May, 2000.Yuko Tajima and Yoshihiro Hayashi (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo) |
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Morphology of mesorostral ossification of Mesoplodon.Kazuo Nagasawa iTakahata Senior High Schooljand Suburu Oba iformer Yamagata Prefectural Museumj |
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Possible age of completion of tooth eruption in Stejneger's beaked whale.Kazumi Arai (Biostructural Science, Graduate School of Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ.), Kazuo Nagasawa (Takahata High School), Tadasu K. Yamada (Dept. of Zoology, National Science Museum), and Yoshiro Takano (Dept. of Zoology, National Science Museum) |
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General remarks on the morphology of some cetacean species frequently reported from the Sea of Japan coasts.Tadasu K. Yamada (National Science Museum, Tokyo) |
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Whale bones placed in the Inari Shrine, Toyohama, Yoichi Town.Miki Mizushima (Historical Museum of Hokkaido) |
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A preliminary report on whaling in Barrouallie, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.Hisashi Hamaguchi iSonoda Women's Collegej Two kinds of whaling are conducted in St. Vincent and the Grenadines at present. One is humpback whaling at Bequia, the other is pilot whaling at St. Vincent. In this paper, some aspects on the pilot whale fishery in Barrouallie, a leeward town in the island of St. Vincent, are examined. The pilot whaling in Barrouallie was started around 1910. The Barrouallie whaleboats were 20 to 24 feet long. They were powered by sail and oars and carried a crew of five. Barrouallie whalemen caught pilot whales and other small cetaceans with hand harpoons and hand lances. A light harpoon gun mounted on a stand bolted to the foredeck was added in 1962, replacing the original hand harpoons. By 1972 all of the boats had been converted to engine power. There were four boats in the early 1970's and two to three boats in the early 1980's. The average annual catch of the pilot whales was 267 in the 1970's. It dwindled to 117 in the 1980's. Four boats are operating in 2001. Each boat is equipped with a harpoon gun and gun harpoons, a number of hand harpoons and hand lances. Three men work in a whaleboat. From bow to stern, they are a 'harpooner', a 'working man' and a 'captain'. The most skillful harpooner in Barrouallie caught 75 pilot whales, 25 false killer whales, 350 porpoises, 4 killer whales and a Bryde's whale in 2000. According to him, a total of 110 pilot whales were captured by the four boats in 2000. Fresh pilot whale, porpoise and whale meat is sold at the dockside to local middlemen or to individuals for home use. The middlemen sell the meat in the capital, Kingstown, either fresh or corned. The average annual catch of the pilot whales has been steady (110 to 120) for the past twenty years. As long as the annual catch of this scale continues, the pilot whale fishery in Barrouallie could be presumed to be a form of sustainable use of living resources. |
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