A well-qualified expert and the then Chair of the Scientific
Committee recognized the value of the information on stock structure of
minke whales in the Antarctic provided by JARPA:
“[T]hey [Japanese scientists working on JARPA] certainly do
provide a lot of data They’ve been doing a lot of genetic
analyses which tell us about stock structure, whether whales in a
particular area mix with whales from another area or whether they
don’t And this is something that’s very important to know for
management purposes So they certainly provide good
information