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Poor Science

The Japanese 'scientific' whaling program has been repeatedly attacked for its poor science. The whalers determine the
age of their 'kills' by extracting a substance similar to ear wax from the dead whale. But a new process has been
developed where a sliver of skin from a whale is used to analyse the DNA of the whale and determine its age. The skin
sample can easily be collected without slaughtering the whale. The process is being developed by the whale research
entre at Southern Cross University in NSW.

The campaign to stop Japanese Whaling has widespread support in Australia. Warrnambool city councillor Jacinta Ermacora
raised the issue at a recent visit to Warrnambool by Hideo Yoshida, the mayor of Warrnambool's sister city Miura.
Language difficulties prevented a frank discussion, but Cr David Atkinson took Mr Yoshida to the renowned Logan's Beach
whale viewing area to see the whales. "It was a great step to take him to the whale sanctuary. It was subtle and we need
to keep making more steps." said Cr Ermacora.

"Having a look at the sister city relationship I feel positive about it so I don't think we should avoid challenging
issues under the act and discussing the issue of whaling and marine environment even if the least we might get out of
it is agreeing to differ." she said.