the Report of the 2006 Intersessional Workshop to Review
Data and Results from Special Permit Research on Minke Whales in the
Antarctic, Tokyo, 4-8 December 2006 (2006 IWC JARPA Final Review
Workshop) stated:
“The results from the JARPA programme, while not required for
management under the RMP381, have the potential to improve
management of minke whales in the Southern Hemisphere in the
following ways: (1) reductions in the current set of plausible
scenarios considered in Implementation Simulation Trials; and (2)
identification of new scenarios to which future Implementation
Simulation Trials will have to be developed (e g the temporal
component of stock structure) The results of analyses of JARPA
data could be used in this way perhaps to increase the allowed
catch of minke whales in the Southern Hemisphere, without
increasing depletion risk above the level indicated by the existing
Implementation Simulation Trials of the RMP for these minke
whales ”382