Potential Welfare Impacts of Chase and Capture of Small Cetaceans during Drive Hunts in Japan

Vail, Courtney S.; Reiss, Diana; Brakes, Philippa; Butterworth, Andrew

doi:10.1080/10888705.2019.1574576

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“…Marine mammals are also harvested, but to a much lesser extent, and harvesting methods differ from those applied to fish. Harpooning [ 60 ] is used for whales, “drive hunts” are used for dolphins [ 61 ], and blunt trauma (“clubbing”) for some ice-breeding species such as harp seals ( Pagophilus groenlandicus ) [ 62 ].…”

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Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices

Hampton

Hyndman

Allen

et al. 2021

Animals

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Ethical food choices have become an important societal theme in post-industrial countries. Many consumers are particularly interested in the animal welfare implications of the various foods they may choose to consume. However, concepts in animal welfare are rapidly evolving towards consideration of all animals (including wildlife) in contemporary approaches such as “One Welfare”. This approach requires recognition that negative impacts (harms) may be intentional and obvious (e.g., slaughter of livestock) but also include the under-appreciated indirect or unintentional harms that often impact wildlife (e.g., land clearing). This is especially true in the Anthropocene, where impacts on non-human life are almost ubiquitous across all human activities. We applied the “harms” model of animal welfare assessment to several common food production systems and provide a framework for assessing the breadth (not intensity) of harms imposed. We considered all harms caused to wild as well as domestic animals, both direct effects and indirect effects. We described 21 forms of harm and considered how they applied to 16 forms of food production. Our analysis suggests that all food production systems harm animals to some degree and that the majority of these harms affect wildlife, not livestock. We conclude that the food production systems likely to impose the greatest overall breadth of harms to animals are intensive animal agriculture industries (e.g., dairy) that rely on a secondary food production system (e.g., cropping), while harvesting of locally available wild plants, mushrooms or seaweed is likely to impose the least harms. We present this conceptual analysis as a resource for those who want to begin considering the complex animal welfare trade-offs involved in their food choices.

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Section: Harms Relevant To Food Productionmentioning

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Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices

Hampton

Hyndman

Allen

et al. 2021

Animals

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“…Sourcing cetaceans from the wild, particularly from 'drive hunts', has been shown to be inhumane and yet it has been associated with the acquisition of live dolphins for international facilities (Butterworth et al, 2013;Vail et al, 2019). As Vail (2015) described;…”

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Trials and Tribulations: The Conservation Implications of an Orca Surviving a Stranding and Boat Strike. A Case Study

Visser¹,

Cooper²,

Hardie³

2021

Contributions to the Global Management and Conservation of Marine Mammals

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O conteúdo deste livro está licenciado sob uma Licença de Atribuição Creative Commons Atribuição-Não-Comercial NãoDerivativos 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Direitos para esta edição cedidos à Editora Artemis pelos autores. Permitido o download da obra e o compartilhamento, desde que sejam atribuídos créditos aos autores, e sem a possibilidade de alterá-la de nenhuma forma ou utilizá-la para fins comerciais.A responsabilidade pelo conteúdo dos artigos e seus dados, em sua forma, correção e confiabilidade é exclusiva dos autores. A Editora Artemis, em seu compromisso de manter e aperfeiçoar a qualidade e confiabilidade dos trabalhos que publica, conduz a avaliação cega pelos pares de todos manuscritos publicados, com base em critérios de neutralidade e imparcialidade acadêmica.

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“…In countries such as Japan and Faroe Islands, wild marine mammals, such as small cetaceans (e.g. whales and dolphins) are used as food sources (Vail et al., 2020) and local communities are at risk of acquiring infection via ingestion of uncooked meat of marine mammals harboring T. gondii . Serological evidence of T. gondii infection in wild marine mammals has been reported in the Pacific Rim (Burgess et al., 2018), Southern Ocean (Núñez‐Egido et al., 2020), Philippine Islands (Obusan et al., 2019) and Sub‐Antarctic area (Michael et al., 2016), which raises concerns of the adverse impact of T. gondii infection on the health of marine mammals and humans.…”

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A systematic review, meta‐analysis and meta‐regression of the global prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild marine mammals and associations with epidemiological variables

Gao

et al. 2022

Transbounding Emerging Dis

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Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild marine mammals is a growing problem and is associated with adverse impacts on marine animal and public health. This systematic review, meta‐analysis and meta‐regression estimates the global prevalence of T. gondii infection in wild marine mammals and analyses the association between T. gondii infection and epidemiological variables. PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Wanfang Data databases were searched until 30 May 2021. Eighty‐four studies (n = 14,931 wild marine mammals from 15 families) were identified from literature. The overall pooled prevalence of T. gondii infection was 22.44% [3848/14,931; 95% confidence interval (CI): 17.29–28.04]. The prevalence in adult animals 21.88% (798/3119; 95% CI: 13.40–31.59) was higher than in the younger age groups. North America had a higher prevalence 29.92% (2756/9243; 95% CI: 21.77–38.77) compared with other continents. At the country level, the highest prevalence was found in Spain 44.26% (19/88; 95%CI: 5.21–88.54). Regarding climatic variables, the highest prevalence was found in areas with a mean annual temperature >20°C 36.28% (171/562; 95% CI: 6.36–73.61) and areas with an annual precipitation > 800 mm 26.92% (1341/5042; 95% CI: 18.20–36.59). The subgroup and meta‐regression analyses showed that study‐level covariates, including age, country, continent, and mean temperature, partly explained the between‐study heterogeneity. Further studies are needed to investigate the source of terrestrial to aquatic dissemination of T. gondii oocysts, the fate of this parasite in marine habitat and its effects on wild marine mammals.

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Potential Welfare Impacts of Chase and Capture of Small Cetaceans during Drive Hunts in Japan

Cited by 11 publications

References 102 publications

Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices

Animal Harms and Food Production: Informing Ethical Choices

Trials and Tribulations: The Conservation Implications of an Orca Surviving a Stranding and Boat Strike. A Case Study

A systematic review, meta‐analysis and meta‐regression of the global prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in wild marine mammals and associations with epidemiological variables

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