Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 18:58:52 -0800
From: Toshihide Hamazaki <toshihide_hamazaki@fishgame.state.ak.us>
Subject: New publication about whaling issue
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Hamazaki, T. & Tanno, D. (2001). Approval of whaling and whaling-related
beliefs: Public opinion in whaling and non-whaling countries. Human
Dimension of Wildlife, 6,
131-144.
Abstract
We examined a widely-held argument that the disagreement over resumption of
commercial whaling between whaling countries (approve) and non-whaling
countries (disapprove) is due to dissimilar views of whales and whaling
(i.e. whether whales are consumptive resources). By analyzing public survey
data about whaling in whaling countries (Japan, Norway) and in non-whaling
countries (Australia, UK, Germany, US), we found that the public’s approval
of whaling was positively correlated with approval of the consumption of
whale meat; however, it was not correlated with knowledge about populations
of whales, in either the whaling nor non-whaling counties. We also found
that the public in the non-whaling countries disapproved of whaling and
strongly disapproved of the consumption of whale meat, whereas the public in
the whaling countries approved of whaling and slightly disapproved of the
consumption of whale meat. Our findings confirm the so-called “cultural
gulf” between whaling and non-whaling countries.
Toshihide Hamazaki / Hamachan
Alaska Department of Fish & Game
Commercial Fisheries Division
333 Raspberry Rd.
Anchorage Alaska 99518
Ph: 907-267-2158
Fax: 907-267-2442
e-mail: toshihide_hamazaki@fishgame.state.ak.us
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