Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

Index

347 Index A A & M Records, 215 aboriginal rights, 117, 220, 234, 244–52, 270, 272–73, 277 Abraham Larsen, 154 Acheson, Dean, 108, 115–18, 135 Addis, J. M., 95 Aeroflot, 237 Africa, 119, 253 Ahab, Captain, 4, 24, 229 air, compressed, 7 Alaska, 27, 218, 241, 244–52; Game Management Department, 246 Alaskan Eskimo Whaling Commission , 248, 250, 271 Albany, Western Australia, 261 Aléman, Roberto, 149 Aleutian Islands, 234 All Japan Seamen’s Union, 281 Allen, K. Radway, 185, 187, 189, 260, 263 American Society of Mammalogists, 41 American Whaling Company, 67, 70–71 Amundsen, Roald, 22 Andersen, H. G., 192 Andersen, Lars, 148–49, 151 Anderson, Frank, 126, 141, 142, 153, 179 Andreas, Wayne, 221 Andrews, Roy Chapman, 6, 9, 10, 281 Angola, 257 Annenberg, Walter, 214 Antarctic Maru, 57, 58, 60, 62 Antarctica, 8, 9; claims to, 10, 27, 60, 81, 137, 141; Norwegian industry in, 11; remoteness from the law, 30 Antarctic Convention, 289 Antigua, 267 anti-war movement, 209 anti-whaling movement. See “Save the Whales” movement Anziani, Paul, 119–20, 126 appeasement, 51 Archer Daniels Midland, 221 Arctic, 244–50 Argentina, 10, 26, 29, 33, 46, 49, 60, 67, 72, 102, 120, 145, 147; builds floating factory, 146; whaling, World War II, 97 Aron, William, 224, 231 Atcheson, George, 138 Atlantic Charter, 139 Atlantic salmon, 226 Attlee, Clement, 106, 142 Audubon Society, 10, 221, 227, 246, 272 Austad, Mark, 274 348 Index Australia, 29, 64, 67, 77, 266; Antarctic claims, 137, 141; assessment of ICRW, 125; Department of Primary Industry, 262; desire to expand whaling, 60, 97; diplomats expelled by Soviets, 152; files objection, 126; and Japanese whaling, 136–42, 187, 236; Labour Party, 262; Liberal Party, 262; and moratorium, 225, 240, 260, 262, 267; opposes reduction in quota, 171–72, 179–80; POWs, 137; proposes NMP, 231; reviews whaling policy, 260–62; seeks compromise with Japan, 285; whaling in, 33, 58, 67, 71, 74, 87f, 152, 261; whaling legislation, 54–55 autolysis, 20 B BBC, 210, 213, 214, 233 Bahamas, 257 Baines, E. G., 101 Balaena, 182, 184, 189 Barbados, 267 Barrow, Alaska, 245 Basque whaling, 4, 32 beluga, 265 Bergersen, Birger, 64, 100, 112, 124, 148; 1937 convention, 66–67; 1938 meeting , 72, 76, 79–80; 1945 meeting, 107; 1946 meeting, 114, 125; on blue whale unit, 104, 123; on cheating, 158; in exile, 102; and extinction, 73, 81; IWC chairman, 121, 168; and objections, 126; optimism about IWC, 125; quota reduction, 126, 170; on whalers’ motives, 91 Bering Sea, 29 Berlin, Germany, 41 Bermuda, 103 Bevin, Ernest, 63 bison, 289 Blazing Saddles, 30 Blow, Stuart, 220 blue whale, 3, 4, 9, 18, 19, 31, 34, 39, 54, 64, 171, 209; catch data, 40, 80, 156, 169; decline, 73, 121–22, 287; difficulty of hunting, 5; ease of hunting, 23; fear of extinction, 63, 66, 73; in fiberglass, 213; hunting banned, 163, 189, 190, 195, 220, 224; limits on hunting, 63, 122, 170; sinks after death, 7; sounds, 215; value of one in 1935, 59; weighed, 143; yield of oil, 8 blue whale unit (BWU), 53, 58, 106, 112, 122, 163, 221; criticism of, 123, 172, 188; ended, 189, 220, 224, 230; origins, 52, 104 Bollen, Arthur, 259–60 Bonin Islands, 134 Borley, J. O., 40, 54, 58 bowhead whale, 4, 5, 32, 156, 265, 272, 283, 285; controversy, 1970s, 218, 244–52, 259–60, 263, 270; hunting banned, 43; lost while hunting, 246; population estimates, 246–47, 249, 251–52 boycotts of whalers, 237, 269, 271, 273, 280 Branson, Missouri, 238 Brazil, 157, 160, 208, 223, 253, 267, 273 Breaux, John, 254 Bremerhaven, 149 Bretton Woods agreement, 109–10 British Columbia, 234 British Museum (Natural History), 3, 32, 35, 47, 213 British Petroleum, 65 Brosnan, Pierce, 289 Bruun, Svend Foyn, 56 Bryde’s whale, 263 Bryn, Kaere, 284 Buckley, James, 246 Buckley, Leonard, 233 Index 349 Bureau for International Whaling Statistics, 39, 43, 152, 155, 157, 161, 169, 173, 235 Burgeo, Newfoundland, 216–17 Burnett, D. Graham, 38 Burns, John, 246–47 Busch, Rolf, 270 Byrne, John, 266, 269, 273 Byrnes, James, 114 C California, 74, 218, 235 Canada, 64, 67, 74, 116, 210, 252; leaves the IWC, 264–65; policy toward whaling diplomacy, 33, 171, 179, 181, 225; whaling in, 33, 264 Canberra, 210 Cape Cod, 219 Cape Town, South Africa, 126, 244 Capitol Records, 215 Carson, Rachel, 209 Carter, Jimmy, 248, 250, 254 Carver, Clifford, 67, 122, 147 catch per day’s work (CDW), 169, 171, 183 catch...