136. The Court next examines a third aspect of the use of lethal methods in JARPA II, which is the extent to which Japan has considered whether the stated objectives of JARPA II could be achieved by making greater use of non-lethal methods, rather than by lethal sampling. The Court recalls that the JARPA II Research Plan sets lethal sample sizes at 850 minke whales (plus or minus 10percent), 50fin whales and 50humpback whales (see paragraph123 above), as compared to a lethal sample size in JARPA of 400 minke whales (plus or minus 10 per cent) and no whales of the other two species (see paragraph 104 above).