Comments on: South Korea Linked to Illegal Whale Hunting http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/ Serving on the Forgotten Frontier Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:05:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Korea's Whaling Capitol at ROK Drop http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-123999 Korea's Whaling Capitol at ROK Drop Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:04:52 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-123999 [...] of you may remember South Korea has been criticized in the past for eating [...] [...] of you may remember South Korea has been criticized in the past for eating [...]

]]> By: Computer Game News and Reviews http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-83214 Computer Game News and Reviews Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:19:40 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-83214 <strong>Computer Game News and Reviews...</strong> I couldn't understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting... Computer Game News and Reviews…

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

]]> By: Dave http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-35444 Dave Mon, 14 May 2007 12:25:55 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-35444 Ok, again, I've not seen Watson's comments on this story, I wasn't aware that he'd made any. I was on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza this year in the Southern Ocean, protesting against the Japanese whale hunt - and I can you tell you, we're against harming other human beings, and definitely against wiping out humanity! More on the Korean story: http://weblog.greenpeace.org/whales/2007/05/is_south_korea_deliberately_ne.html here's a direct link to the Molecular Biology paper: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03317.x?journalCode=mec Ok, again, I’ve not seen Watson’s comments on this story, I wasn’t aware that he’d made any. I was on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza this year in the Southern Ocean, protesting against the Japanese whale hunt - and I can you tell you, we’re against harming other human beings, and definitely against wiping out humanity!

More on the Korean story:
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/whales/2007/05/is_south_korea_deliberately_ne.html

here’s a direct link to the Molecular Biology paper:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03317.x?journalCode=mec

]]> By: GI Korea http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-34881 GI Korea Sat, 12 May 2007 21:17:03 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-34881 If you say so, but the point of my posting is that people like Paul Watson who is the most recognizable face of the whale lobby are hurting the credibility of the whale lobby with has tactics and statements. It will be interesting to see if South Korea responds to this report or not. If you say so, but the point of my posting is that people like Paul Watson who is the most recognizable face of the whale lobby are hurting the credibility of the whale lobby with has tactics and statements. It will be interesting to see if South Korea responds to this report or not.

]]> By: Tojo defends Yasukuni on Korean TV « AMPONTAN http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-34764 Tojo defends Yasukuni on Korean TV « AMPONTAN Sat, 12 May 2007 13:19:42 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-34764 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Comments South Korea Linked to Illegal Whale Hunting at ROK Drop on Stopping Japanese whaling by hook, crook, or steel enemaequinoXio » » El [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] Comments South Korea Linked to Illegal Whale Hunting at ROK Drop on Stopping Japanese whaling by hook, crook, or steel enemaequinoXio » » El [...]

]]> By: Dave http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-34738 Dave Sat, 12 May 2007 12:10:15 +0000 http://rokdrop.com/2007/05/12/south-korea-linked-to-illegal-whale-hunting/#comment-34738 Easy on the knee-jerk reaction! What's got to do with environmentalists? It's from a scientific paper published by researchers in Oregon State University, that showed how scientfic modelling was used to come up with those figures. http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19426034.100-high-value-of-whale-meat-costs-minkes-in-korea.html "Baker had South Korean colleagues buy minke meat from local markets and used DNA fingerprinting to determine how many individual whales the meat had come from. That alone did not reveal the total number of whales caught; the researchers calculated that figure by borrowing a technique called "mark and recapture". Ecologists estimate the size of an animal population by trapping, marking and releasing animals, and then seeing how many marked and unmarked animals turn up in subsequent trapping efforts. Using the DNA signatures of individual whales as markers, successive surveys revealed population data for the dead whales whose meat was being sold in the Korean markets." "With the aid of a mathematical model developed by Justin Cooke of the Center for Ecosystem Management Studies in Gutach, Germany, Baker's team estimated that South Korean fishermen caught 827 minke between 1999 and 2003 (Molecular Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03317.x). "This is a very exciting study because it finally provides a tool to establish the magnitude of the bycatch problem," says Phil Clapham of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle." Easy on the knee-jerk reaction!

What’s got to do with environmentalists? It’s from a scientific paper published by researchers in Oregon State University, that showed how scientfic modelling was used to come up with those figures.

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg19426034.100-high-value-of-whale-meat-costs-minkes-in-korea.html

“Baker had South Korean colleagues buy minke meat from local markets and used DNA fingerprinting to determine how many individual whales the meat had come from. That alone did not reveal the total number of whales caught; the researchers calculated that figure by borrowing a technique called “mark and recapture”. Ecologists estimate the size of an animal population by trapping, marking and releasing animals, and then seeing how many marked and unmarked animals turn up in subsequent trapping efforts. Using the DNA signatures of individual whales as markers, successive surveys revealed population data for the dead whales whose meat was being sold in the Korean markets.”

“With the aid of a mathematical model developed by Justin Cooke of the Center for Ecosystem Management Studies in Gutach, Germany, Baker’s team estimated that South Korean fishermen caught 827 minke between 1999 and 2003 (Molecular Ecology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03317.x). “This is a very exciting study because it finally provides a tool to establish the magnitude of the bycatch problem,” says Phil Clapham of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle.”

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