The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is holding a special meeting in Japan next week. Two major tasks for the meeting will be to set catch limits for sperm whale stocks in the North Pacific and to review the status and catch limits of sperm whales in the Southern Hemisphere. John Beddington, lecturer in population biology at the University of York, explains why he thinks no more sperm whales should be caught in these areas.
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Beddington, J. Crisis for sperm whales. Nature 276, 656 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/276656a0
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