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Dr. Nick Gales, Leader of the Australian Marine Mammal Centre said ship-based surveys in the Southern Ocean over the past two decades had found evidence of a possible decline in minke whale abundance. The Japanese whle hunt in the Southern Ocean targets mainly minke whales.
"The IWC has been counting whales in the Southern Ocean since 1978 and evidence of a decline was obviously of increasing concern," he said, adding that aerial survey techniques are considered more reliable than ship-based surveys.
"Changes in distribution of sea ice each year, and changes in the number of minke whales present within the ice zone, particularly in the pack ice where the survey ships cannot penetrate, could be responsible for some of the changes in the number of whales seen in the open water," said Gales. "This new survey technique employing the latest technology will help us overcome those barriers."

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