High Velocity Projectiles for Killing Whales. Hunting Trials using 20 mm High Velocity Projectiles for Minke Whales in 1982

Norway was requested by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to explore the use of high-velocity projectiles to replace cold harpoon as killing device for minke whales (Anon 1980). Tests of suitable high-velocity projectiles for minke whales were therefore initiated in 1982 as part of a wider...

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Published in:Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Main Author: Øen, E. O.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 1995
Subjects:
Brief Communication
Norway
minke whale
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8095433/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7572454
https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03547713
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Summary:Norway was requested by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to explore the use of high-velocity projectiles to replace cold harpoon as killing device for minke whales (Anon 1980). Tests of suitable high-velocity projectiles for minke whales were therefore initiated in 1982 as part of a wider project with the purpose of studying alternative killing methods to the traditional cold harpoon used in the Norwegian minke whale hunt until 1984 (Øen 1995). The results of the trials have previously been presented in unpublished reports to the IWC (Øen 1982, 1983, 1992).

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