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Whaling under a scientific auspice: The ethics of scientific research whaling operations

Ethical questions that pertain to morals and attempt to ascertain suitable standards of behaviour within international environmental law, and the whaling debate in particular, are of increasing interest to the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Interest in ethical analysis of standards arises from recognition that solutions to intractable problems can only be achieved through ethical discourse. The Commissioner for New Zealand, the Honourable Jim McLay, stated at the 1997 meeting: Science is the province of the Scientific Committee, but there are occasions when it is proper for this body [the IWC] to give guidance on the Committee's scope. That is particularly true where a scientific research program raises moral and ethical issues. And ethical issues are