The truth about Soviet whaling: a memoir

In November 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov, who at the time was the Science Advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, 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...

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Published in:Marine fisheries review 2008-03, Vol.70 (2), p.1-1
Main Authors: Ivashchenko, Yulia V, Clapham, Phillip J, Brownell, Jr., Robert L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Fish industry
Fisheries
Laws, regulations and rules
Marine
Services
Whaling
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Summary:In November 1993, Professor Alexei Yablokov, who at the time was the Science Advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, 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 oceans.
ISSN:0090-1830