.
Choose your language:

PROCESS

The data availability agreement is overseen by the Data Availability Group (DAG) comprising the Chair and Vice-chair of the Scientific Committee and the Secretariat's Head of Science, Conservation and Management.

Primary Contact and correspondence should be with the Scientific Committee Vice-chair, Lindsay Porter.  Please also send copies to the Scientific Committee Chair, Alex Zerbini and the Secretariat Head of Science, Conservation and Management, Iain Staniland.

There are two data availability procedures:

Procedure A: this applies to data required for the RMP, AWMP and to provide advice on aboriginal subsistence whaling catch limits before the relevant SLAs have been completed.

Procedure B: this applies to data required for analyses deemed important in providing advice to the Commission other than catch limits (e.g. on the status of stocks not subject to IWC regulated whaling).

The full Guidelines and Rules can be downloaded below:


DEADLINES

Under Procedure A, there are deadlines for papers using those data to be submitted to the Scientific Committee. They are as follows:

Type of paper Time before first day of SC Plenary  
Final datasets available                    6 months  
Papers using novel methods                    3 months  
Papers using standard methods                    2 months  
Papers responding to those above                    1 month  

 


DATA

Summary lists of the data available can be downloaded below. Applications for such data shall be copied to the DAG.

Subject  
Western North Pacific common minke whales (2012) 
Genetic data for the Pre-Implementation Assessment (Japan)
Genetic data for the Pre-Implementation Assessment (USA)
Genetic data for the Pre-Implementation Assessment (Korea)
Sightings data for the Pre-Implementation Assessment (Japan)
Sightings data for the Pre-Implementation Assessment (Korea)
 

Western North Pacific common minke whales (2018)

Genetic data for the Pre-Implementation Assessment (Japan)

 

Eastern North Pacific gray whales (2012)
Summary of data for the 2012 Implementation Review

 

Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas stock of bowhead whales (2012)
Summary of data for the 2012 Implementation Review

 

Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas stock of bowhead whales (2018)

Summary of data for the 2018 Implementation Review 

 
Data held by the International Whaling Commission  

 


APPLICATIONS

Applications made under Procedure A should be made to the contact persons identified in the summary files provided above. Applications made under Procedure B should follow the protocols provided below (if no Protocol is listed contact the DAG).


PROTOCOLS

At present, these are the agreed protocols for approaching the following bodies for data available under Procedure B. Right click link and choose 'Save target as..' to download.

Title Link
Protocol for access to samples/data from the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), Tokyo, Japan (JCRM 6 (suppl.): 56-7 ICR
Protocol for access to samples/data from the Cetacean Research Center (CRC), National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Korea,  (JCRM 6 (suppl.):57) CRC
Protocol for access to data from the University of Auckland UAuckland
Protocol for access to samples/data from the National Research Institute of Far Seas Fisheries (NRIFSF), Fisheries Research Agency, Japan, for data availability (JCRM 6 (suppl.):57) NRIFSF

 


AGREEMENTS

For the successful operation of the agreement, certain conditions must be met that ensure the rights of the data holders as detailed in the Rules available for downloading above. An example of the standard agreement letter can be downloaded here:

Agreement letter (Word Doc) (47Kb)