On the other hand, the Japanese didn't want to se. "the whale all market spoilt, nor specially to have slump occur, such as happened 1031, when the depression was 50 great thatthe Norwegians refrained entirely from operating in the An= arctic in the 1081-82 season in order fo help the market to right itself The Japanese also genuinely desire, from self-interest it for no other reason, t0 protect the whales and prevent, oF at least postpone, their even: {ual extermination, Therefore, when the British called Janother conference in London in the summer of 1988, the Japanese agreed to attend. and' sent " representatives from the Foreign Office and from the Bureau of Fisheries in the Ministry fof Agriculture and Forestry, which has control of the whaling" industry. For the foregoing reasons, and also because they" now had fix, factors ships ready for the 1920-80 season, pulling them on a more equal basis, the Japanese decided the time hi come (0 ce-operate with the oth ies interested in the -whalinys try. Sti another reason was the British soap interests provide the chief market for the Japanese production of whale oil, so the: Japa nese thought it would be politic, various yrounds. to needs to "the British urging' that Japan partlelpate in an agreement, The result of the conference was that the agreement reached in 1997 was amended to overcome various [Japanese objections, and Japan iv now observing the revised convention.
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