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:
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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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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) |
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Western North Pacific common minke whales (2018) Genetic data for the Pre-Implementation Assessment (Japan)
Eastern North Pacific gray whales (2012)
Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas stock of bowhead whales (2012)
Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas stock of bowhead whales (2018) Summary of data for the 2018 Implementation Review |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
