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Antarctic minke whales find ice gaps along the ice edge in foraging grounds of the Indo-Pacific sector (60° E and 140° E) of the Southern Ocean

Published Online: 2020-03-02

Published Print: 2020-04

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Konishi, Kenji

Isoda, Tatsuya

Bando, Takeharu

Minamikawa, Shingo

Kleivane, Lars
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Article History

Received: 9 April 2019

Revised: 19 February 2020

Accepted: 25 February 2020

First Online: 2 March 2020

Ethical approval

: The tagging experiments on the Antarctic minke whale were conducted under the non-lethal research component of the New Scientific Whale Research Program in the Antarctic Ocean (NEWREP-A). The necessity of the tagging on the Antarctic minke whales and its procedure on this program has been opened to International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee and reviewed by a review panel selected from IWC specialists (IWCCitationRef removed). This process was substituted for ethical and protocol standards. The NEWREP-A program was conducted under the permission from The Fishery Agency of Japan and funded by the Institute of Cetacean Research. We did not receive funding from a commercial source and declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

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