The Truth About Soviet Whaling: A Memoir
In November 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov, who at the time was the Science Advisor to Russian President BorisYeltsin, stood on a podium in Galveston, Tex., and delivered a speech to the Society for Marine Mammalogy’s biennial conference, the premier international event in the field of marine mammal science. Addressing the 1,500 scientists present, he made what amounted to a national confession: that, beginning in 1948, the U.S.S.R. had begun a huge campaign of illegal whaling. Despite being a signatory to the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (signed in Washington, D.C., just 2 years before in 1946), the Soviets set out to pillage the world’s ocean
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| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, Management, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/26311 |
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