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WINTER 2018 / VOLUME 67 / NUMBER 4 Animal Welfare Institute Jill Carey, CPA, Treasurer Jill Carey, CPA John W WINTER 2018 / VOLUME 67 / NUMBER 4 The county prosecutor in Collin County, Texas, informed AWI that this was the first prosecution she is aware of under the SPOTLIGHT 2016 Texas law establishing the ban. The prosecutor’s office worked closely with Texas game wardens, who reviewed DNA AWI Tip Leads Texas Officials samples of the offered shark fin. Officer Michael Stevens, to Illegal Shark Fin Sales the game warden initially notified by AWI, let the prosecutor know about AWI’s shark fin campaign. Ultimately, as part of The cruel shark fin trade continues to decimate shark the plea deal, the restaurant was required to make a donation populations worldwide, and demand from the United States to AWI for its shark protection work. contributes to that toll. Although 15 states and territories ban the sale of shark fin products, it remains legal to sell While this outcome in Texas is an extremely encouraging them in most of the United States. sign, a nationwide ban on shark fin products is needed. The bipartisan Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act (HR 1456) would Each year, AWI audits its online list of restaurants serving accomplish this. The bill has more than 250 co-sponsors in the shark fin, including those in states with bans. If we believe House of Representatives. Its companion bill, the Shark Fin a restaurant is flouting a state ban, we notify authorities. Trade Elimination Act (S 793), has more than 36 co-sponsors in During its 2017 audit, AWI found a Texas restaurant that the Senate. These bills would prohibit the sale of shark fins in was serving shark fin soup despite a state ban. We notified the United States, help reduce the international shark fin trade, Texas wildlife enforcement officials, who investigated. and improve enforcement capabilities. Please contact your Subsequently, the restaurant was charged and pleaded members of Congress and ask them to support this legislation guilty to illegally serving shark fin products. at www.awionline.org/sharks. FOUNDER SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Marjorie Fishman D.J. Schubert Public Relations Manager Wildlife Biologist Christine Stevens Gerard Bertrand, PhD Haley Frevert Regina Terlau-Benford Roger Fouts, PhD Membership Coordinator Executive Assistant DIRECTORS Roger Payne, PhD Joanna Grossman, PhD Erin Thompson, Esq. Cynthia Wilson, Chair Samuel Peacock, MD Equine Program Manager Staff Attorney, Farm Animal Program John W. Boyd, Jr. Viktor Reinhardt, DVM, PhD Johanna Hamburger, Esq. Dave Tilford Wildlife Attorney Writer/Editor Jill Carey, CPA Robert Schmidt, PhD Caroline A. Griffin, Esq. Sydney Hearst John Walsh, MD Communications Coordinator Mary Lee Jensvold, PhD Dena Jones Cathy Liss STAFF AND CONSULTANTS Director, Farm Animal Program Chris Miller, DVM Nadia Adawi, Esq. Eric Kleiman Executive Director/General Counsel Researcher OFFICERS Alexandra Alberg Joanna Makowska, PhD Animal Welfare Institute Animal Welfare Senior Graphic Designer Laboratory Animal Advisor Cathy Liss, President For subscription inquiries or other Brittany Bailey Susan Millward Cynthia Wilson, Vice President information, contact: Website and Communications Director, Marine Animal Program Manager Animal Welfare Institute Jill Carey, CPA, Treasurer Kate O’Connell 900 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE Caroline Griffin, Esq., Secretary Nancy Blaney Marine Animal Consultant Director, Government Affairs Washington, DC 20003 Ryan Ososki (202) 337-2332 Bill Clark, PhD Policy Advisor INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE [email protected] International Wildlife Program Alicia Prygoski Aline S. de Aluja, DVM, Mexico Specialist www.awionline.org Farm Animal Policy Associate Ambassador Tabarak Husain, Kate Dylewsky ISSN 1071-1384 (print) Mary Lou Randour, PhD Bangladesh Senior Policy Advisor ISSN 1930-5109 (online) Senior Advisor, Animal Cruelty Program Angela King, United Kingdom Sue Fisher Naomi Rose, PhD Tax ID# 13-5655952 Agnes Van Volkenburgh, DVM, Poland Marine Animal Consultant Marine Mammal Scientist CFC# 10474 9 TOBIAS FREI TOBIAS AWI QUARTERLY WINTER 2018 ANIMALS IN LABORATORIES 5 Orca Task Force Ignores Actual Solutions 23 Cranky Mice? Corncob Bedding May 6 Scapegoating Sea Lions Won’t Save Salmon Be Culprit 8 Japan’s Sei Whale Trade Declared Illegal 23 AWI Updates Refi nement Database Under CITES 23 Sanctuary for Former Lab Chimps, 9 Noninvasive Monitoring of Manatees But Who Might Be Left Behind? 24 Assessing Laboratory Macaque Food WILDLIFE Preferences in Positive Reinforcement Training 10 Court Castigates USFWS for Rolling Back Red Wolf Protection 25 No, Monkeys Don’t “Volunteer” to Have Their Brains Probed 10 National Academies to Tackle Wolf Taxonomy 11 AWI and Book Publisher Enlist Kids COMPANION ANIMALS to Save Species ABOUT THE COVER 20 From Shelter to Savior: Rescues Shine 11 AWI Speaks Up for NY Horn and Few farm animals in this country as Working Dogs Ivory Restrictions live out in the open—instead living 11 China Allows—then Disavows— in vast barns in close confi nement. Medicinal Use of Tiger, Rhino Parts FARM ANIMALS When such facilities catch on fi re, the 14 AWI Report Reveals Tragic Toll of 12 Beaver Institute Solves Confl icts animals are often trapped. From 2013 Barn Fires to Save Beavers to 2017, more than 2.7 million farm 28 Victory! BLM Stands Down on 18 In Natural Disasters, Farm Animals animals died in the United States as Forsaken Sterilization Scheme a result of 326 barn fi res. The most 18 Not So Fast: Key Condition Added to common culprit is a faulty heating Line Speed Waivers GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS device. A new AWI report—Barn Fires: 18 Missouri Muzzles Meat’s Competition 13 New Year Ushers in New Congress A Deadly Threat to Farm Animals— 19 AWI Sues USDA to Force Online 13 Massachusetts Adds to Animal Cruelty takes a close look at the circumstances Disclosure of Records Statute behind these tragic events and 13 New Jersey Poised to Ban Wild outlines steps all farms can take to MARINE LIFE Animal Circus Acts prevent them. Turn to page 14 to learn 2 AWI Tip Leads Texas Off icials to Illegal more. Photograph by Jim Schemel. Shark Fin Sales REVIEWS 4 IWC Recap: Eff orts to Curtail Whale 26 Rigor Mortis Conservation Avoided 26 Eager 5 Talks Begin on Treaty to Protect High Seas Biodiversity 27 Wildlife Crime 5 Russia Resumes Beluga, Orca Captures www.facebook.com/animalwelfareinstitute @AWIonline @AWIonline MARINE LIFE IWC Recap: Efforts to Curtail Whale Conservation Avoided n September, AWI took part in the 67th meeting of I the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Florianópolis, Brazil. The meeting delivered a series of surprises—not least of which was that Japan failed to secure support for any of its priorities. Since the Japanese Parliament adopted a new whaling law in 2017, it has been Japan’s official policy to continue so-called “special permit” or “scientific” whaling and seek to resume commercial whaling as soon as possible. To this end, Japan submitted a complicated proposal that would have lifted the IWC’s longstanding global moratorium on commercial whaling and set quotas for whales in Japan’s coastal waters, while also initiating a diplomatic conference to revise the voting rules enshrined in the IWC’s 1946 founding treaty. Under the treaty, binding decisions require a three-quarters majority vote. The rule change would have allowed IWC decisions on whaling quotas to pass via a simple majority—a threshold that Japan and its allies are close to meeting. The proposal itself, however, needed to secure a three- OLIVEIRA PAULO fourths majority since its effect would have been binding. At the IWC’s biennial meeting in Brazil, member nations agreed to support measures that address the enormous number of cetaceans who Ultimately, it fell far short, with Japan securing only 27 yes die each year after becoming entangled in fishing gear. votes to 41 votes against. Another positive development was the adoption of several the renewal of existing quotas for the United States and for AWI-supported conservation resolutions, including “the St. Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as increased catch Florianópolis Declaration”—a statement of IWC intent to limits for Greenland and Russia (on the condition that Russia maintain the moratorium and support the conservation take steps to improve the welfare of its hunt and contribute of whales. We were particularly involved in the adoption to efforts to understand the “stinky whale” phenomenon, of a resolution that recognizes the valuable ecological in which a small proportion of landed gray whales emit a services that cetaceans provide to the marine ecosystem. strong chemical odor, rendering them inedible). The IWC also The resolution endorses a workshop to identify additional approved rules for the carry-forward of unused ASW quotas scientific studies needed to fully understand this role— and a new provision to allow quotas to renew automatically knowledge that would strengthen arguments for maintaining every six years. AWI strongly opposed many of the new ASW the whaling ban and for establishing marine protected measures, especially the auto-renewal provision, but helped areas. The IWC also agreed to support new prevention to ensure that it includes conditions that will make it more and mitigation measures to address the annual bycatch difficult for Russia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and entanglement deaths of hundreds of thousands of whales, Greenland—whose hunts pose the greatest management, dolphins, and porpoises in fishing gear. conservation, and welfare concerns—to exploit them. marine life A significant focus of the meeting was the renewal of aboriginal
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