This has recently led the
Committee to note in one of
its reports that the stock structure model used in JARPA
II was “simple and potentially powerful”
and that “[a]side from the general relevance of the results to understanding [of] Antarctic minke
whale dynamics, it might in the
future prove useful in
allocating historical catches to stocks”
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Would the Scientific Committee make such favourable comments about JARPA
II if it were not for
purposes of scientific research?