Southern Ocean Sanctuary

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anchorage; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.214.837; http://www.csiwhalesalive.org/csi2008_04.pdf

I traveled over to London in early March with high expectations for the intersessional meeting on the future of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). This special meeting had been scheduled as a result of Commission discussions on the future of the IWC at the 59th Annual Meeting of the IWC in Anchorage in June 2007. The current perception of the IWC is that the organization is deadlocked. Talks between the “pro-whaling ” and “anti-whaling ” members have reached an impasse, with neither side seen to be moving on contentious issues like small-type coastal whaling, whale watching, sanctuaries, small cetaceans and the always controversial Conservation Committee. After Japan announced in December that they would delay killing humpback whales in the