Three activists 'prisoners' after slipping aboard Japanese ship

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58. As i said

Most the anti-whaling countries in the IWC condemn their use of the article and I understand their position to some degree, but Japan is *not* breaking the 'law' since they are abiding by the regulations of the IWC(I'm not saying laws since the IWC don't actually have the authority to pass laws, if Japan were to leave the IWC tomorrow then they would no longer be bound by its regulations).

so exactly what law should be enforced? if you are refering the the Australian Whale Sanctuary they are hunting in that is a very dicy argument since i think only 4 countries recognize it(with my country of Norway being one of them interestingly enough).

As a last section in regards to the research I came across just now as I was looking up the whale sanctuary info and followed the link to whaling controversy there seems that it has had 'some' use after all .

Although lethal sampling is a heavily debated issue, the IWC Scientific Committee acknowledges the usefulness of the data from JARPA.[63] In a November 2008 review of Japan's first 18 years of its scientific whaling program, the IWC stated that the panel was "very pleased" with the data that Japan collected, though there was some advice on how these data could be further or better analyzed.[64]