If a wild animal species or stock is endangered, lethal sampling
from that species or stock is in almost all cases inappropriate However, thatwas not the case with JARPA, since the estimated exploitable population sizeof Antarctic minke whales was known to be in the hundreds of thousandswhen JARPA began479, and scientific calculation showed that a research take of several hundreds of minke whales (less than 1% of the population size) would not harm the status of the stock480