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Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

-Elie Wiesel-

Here is a contest that I think you will find interesting. At www.StopWhaling.org, visitors can create their own whale remix song using real whale sounds. Entries will be judged by a panel of celebrity musicians. Prizes up for grabs include a video iPod, iPod Nano, and iPod Shuffle. Entries are due by midnight June 11th.
   PLEASE COPY AND PASTE SOME OF THIS INFORAMTION INTO A DOCUMENT AND SEND TO A MEMBER OF THE IMTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION;
SEE www.iwcoffice/commission/members.htm

In particular the following:
The Caribbean countries of: Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Grenada, St Kitts & St Nevis. Other pro-whaling nations who could upset the vote: Belize, Gambia, Mali, and Togo.   Solomon Islands & Papua New Guinea.

[Do you know more? Send us the details – email: dave @stopwhaling.co.nz

To whom it may concern.
Small & Island Nations Support of Japans Whaling Plans

We are writing to various Political representatives & the news media in Nations that are reportedly planning on supporting Japan in the resumption of commercial whaling by the removal of the IWC moratorium on commercial whaling. Of course we all know that since the 1986 moratorium came into force Japan has used a loophole to carry out “so called” research whaling. In fact they have killed a minimum of 13686 whales since 1986. The research they supposedly have carried out can be done by non-lethal methods; the research is not needed or wanted by the IWC. It is clear that Japan has been carrying out illegal commercial whaling and has plans to include more endangered species from 2007. In particular of the estimated 10,000 endangered [ESA & IUCN] Humpback whales they plan to kill 50 in 2007 along with 50 endangered Fin whales. DNA testing of whale meat has proved that they have already killed a number of listed endangered species. Many Islands Nations gain much income from tourists doing whaling watching trips, one of the main species being Humpback whales. Why would you kill a whale that year after year provides you with tourist income for the short term return of whale meat, which incidentally is being stockpiled in Japanese cold stores because it is not selling. So it is ending up as dog food and being fed to school children in school lunches. Did you know that whale meat is contaminated by heavy metals and chemicals? The whole idea of a whale meat industry just does not make sense on any level or for any reason. This is far beyond the scope & extent of traditional ‘Indigenous peoples whaling’.
  Scientists fear Japanese whaling threatens humpback numbers
[. 03/04/2006. ABC News Online]
More than two million whales of all types were slaughtered for their oil in the southern hemisphere between 1904 and 1986. Although hunting virtually ceased in the early years of the ban, around 2,000, mainly minke, whales are currently being killed under a "scientific" loophole. Of the three countries that have consistently flouted the ban, Japan has been the most aggressive in using its financial and diplomatic muscle to lobby for a return of commercial whale hunting. Its government-backed Fisheries Agency operates a "vote consolidation programme", which targets fisheries aid to poorer countries in return for their votes at the IWC. Over the past six years, at least 14 countries have been recruited to the IWC as Japan's supporters - three during the past year. Some of these countries have no whaling traditions, and two, Mongolia and Mali; do not even have a coastline. Japan has been particularly active among small island nations in the South Pacific and the Caribbean, which have fledgling fishing industries in need of financial support.   The numbers joining the IWC in recent years have been "two to one" in favour of pro-whaling states, and that "the Pacific has been turning against us". Six Caribbean countries, including St Kitts and Nevis, where the IWC meeting will be held, will vote with Japan over the next three weeks. St Kitts and Nevis alone has received $24m (£12.7m) for fisheries development. Along with the other Caribbean countries, it can also expect to be given a whaling quota, which it can sell to whale-hunting countries. The St Kitts meeting is expected to be the most vitriolic for years. Japan lost potentially groundbreaking decisions by only four votes a year ago in Korea.
RIGHT WHALES
The population of the right whale is estimated at only 500 in the northern hemisphere, and is unlikely to survive the century. A population of around 7,500 exists in the southern hemisphere.
SEI WHALES
Heavily exploited in the 1960s and 1970s as other stocks declined. In the North Pacific, populations were slashed by four-fifths to just over 2,000.
FIN WHALES
Some pre-hunting estimates put numbers at 360,000, but they are down to 56,000 now.
HUMPBACK WHALES
Pre-hunt stocks are estimated at 240,000, but more than a century of slaughter has reduced that to around 10,000.
MINKE WHALES
North Atlantic estimates of the species most common in Scottish waters are a pre-hunt 265,000 - down to 149,000 now.
BLUE WHALES
These giants were hunted almost to extinction in the early 20th century. Numbers have recovered to around 10,000 after protection began in 1966. It is estimated that for every 100 whales that existed before whaling, only one was left.
SPERM WHALES
Highly prized for their huge oil reservoirs, whaling reduced numbers from more than one million to around 350,000.Related topic

Sharks, whales & dolphins
http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=226

The whole article:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=754182006

See Also:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1607226.htm

”Scientists have found humpback whales in the Pacific have not recovered from commercial whaling…..”

SO why do some small nations support Japan? In some cases Japan provides foreign aid and other “incentives” to get support. Want to reads more? See:

         http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0513-01.htm

For further background reading see:
http://www.firstscience.com/SITE/editor/061_ramblings_02072004.asp

Japan has pumped more than $77 million into the Caribbean countries of Antigua and Barbuda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and Grenada, all of which also attend the IWC. Japan funded elaborate—and sometimes ill-conceived—fisheries projects and other programs. “At the same time, each country consistently voted with Japan and against the [New Zealand, Australian, and U.K.] led, anti-whaling coalition on key issues at the IWC annual meetings.

http://www.stopwhaling.co.nz    We are calling for a consumer’s boycott of Japanese goods by individuals until they stop whaling. This maybe extended to Nations that support commercial whaling.   After June 2006 we will know who to target, we hope its not you!
See Also: www.australiansforanimals.org
The Japanese are whaling in violation of the International Whaling Commission’s global moratorium on commercial whaling.

The Japanese are illegally killing whales from the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary.

The Japanese are illegally killing whales from the Australian Antarctic Territory.

The Japanese are illegally targeting fin whales this year and humpback whales next year. These are endangered species, and thus, this is a violation of CITES, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna.

The Japanese are in violation of IWC regulation 19(a). The IWC regulations in the Schedule to the convention forbid the use of factory ships to process any protected stock: “19. (a) It is forbidden to use a factory ship or a land station for the purpose of treating any whales which are classified as Protection Stocks in paragraph 10. Paragraph 10(c) provides a definition of Protection Stocks and states that Protection Stocks are listed in the Tables of the Schedule. Table 1 lists all the baleen whales, including minke, fin, and humpback whales and states that all of them are Protection Stocks.

In addition, the IWC regulations specifically ban the use of factory ships to process any whales except minke whales: Paragraph 10(d) provides: “(d) Notwithstanding the other provisions of paragraph 10 there shall be a moratorium on the taking, killing or treating of whales, except minke whales, by factory ships or whale catchers attached to factory ships. This moratorium applies to sperm whales, killer whales and baleen whales, except minke whales.” Fin and humpback whales are both baleen whales and are subject to this moratorium.
The Legal Powers to stop whaling.
These are contained in the UN World Charter for Nature (1982).

Under the charter individuals singly and collectively have an obligation and duty to safeguard nature against illegal activities:

S. 21: States and, to the extent they are able, other public authorities, international organizations, individuals, groups and corporations shall:

(a) Implement the applicable international legal provisions for the conservation of nature, and the protection of the environment;

(d) Ensure that activities within their jurisdiction , or control do not cause damage to the natural systems located within other States or in the areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

(e) Safeguard and conserve nature in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

· S.24: Each person has a duty to act in accordance with the provisions of the present Charter; acting individually, in association with others or through participation in the political process, each person shall strive to ensure that the objectives and requirements of the present charter are met. “

In the 2005 IWC convention, of the 66 IWC member nations, 29 voted YES to commercial whaling and 30 voted NO. Anti-whaling nations Costa Rica, Kenya, and Peru could not vote due to delinquent subscription payment, and four pro-whaling nations which had received bribes from Japan - Belize, Gambia, Mali, and Togo -
were absent.

       If all IWC member-nations show up to vote in June 2006 (and we can count on Japan to twist the arms of Belize, Gambia, Mali, and Togo to be present to vote), it will be 33 YES and 33 NO, which would deprive Japan of the 51+% majority.

       But Costa Rica, Kenya, and Peru may not show up because they cannot afford the membership dues. The solution is for Governments, & groups like Greenpeace, IFAW, or HSUS to pay these membership dues and also to recruit other nations to join to support the whales.

Stop Press:April 15, 2006

Fin whales, the world's second largest whale and to many whale-eaters the tastiest, are likely to make a comeback on Japanese menus. Despite last summer's anti-whaling protests, the country's whaling fleet returned to the north-western port of Kanazawa yesterday with a haul of :

10 fins and 853 minkes.

It was the largest single slaughter of whales since the moratorium on commercial whaling came into force in 1986.

The fin is the second largest living animal after the blue whale. It can grow to 19 metres long and weigh up to 75 tonnes. With 725,000 fins killed last century in the Antarctic, it is still endangered.

Japanese Plans Dangerous

Scientists fear Japanese whaling threatens humpback numbers

Scientists have found humpback whales in the Pacific have not recovered from commercial whaling.

They are also concerned future Japanese whaling could harm humpback whale populations.

Scientists from the International Whaling Commission are meeting in Hobart this week to discuss what has happened to humpback numbers since commercial whaling ended in 1973.

Scientists estimate whales are coming back to Australia's east coast but smaller stocks in the Pacific are not recovering as quickly.

Dr Phil Clapham from the Alaska Fisheries Science Centre in Seattle says he is worried about Japanese intentions to take 50 whales from Antarctic waters from 2007.

"Our major concern about that is that if you kill a humpback whale down there, because we know there is some, or suspect there is some migratory exchange with areas in Oceania with these small populations - you don't know whether the whale you're killing is from a larger recovering population or from one of these small really unrecovered populations - there's no way to tell that," he said.

A meeting of scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division will discuss the number of humpback whales in the Southern Hemisphere.

The information will inform the International Whaling Commission on proposed Japanese whaling in the Antarctic.
Scientists have found it difficult to track whales around Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand because the populations have decreased to a few hundred whales.
Dr Clapham says 200,000 whales were killed by commercial whalers between 1904 and 1973.

"New Zealand is another one actually, that was a migratory route there were a lot of humpbacks going through Cook Strait and there were a number of shore whaling that were taking them south of there and today there's still relatively few humpback whales in New Zealand," he said.

"They seem to be making a little bit of a comeback there but it's nothing like it was, you know 40 or 50 years ago.

Contact Us : The Citizens Environmental Advocacy Centre Inc. Napier, New Zealand. Att. Dave [ Marine Environment Projects Manager ] at: dave@stopwhaling.co.nz

We don’t ask for money-just action. If you want to contribute to direct action we strongly suggest "The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society " [ see Link page to view their web site.] Go & see how many whaling ships they have sunk!

But now they need a faster,longer range ship. They are confident that they then can stop the whale chaser boats getting a clear shot at a whale. I urge you to support them.

Due to hackers a new web site will be annouced soon.:
. What difference can one person make?
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" Mahatma Gandhiji

A half a century ago, a ship’s physician on a whaling trip in the Antarctic wrote the following description:

“If we can imagine a horse having two or three explosive spears stuck in its stomach and being made to pull a butcher’s truck through the streets of London while it pours blood into the gutter, we shall have an idea of the method of killing. The gunners themselves admit that if whales could scream, the industry would stop for nobody would be able to stand it.”

In fact they do scream, ask members of greenpeace & sea shepherd-they have heard them.

The use of harpoons with explosive grenade heads is still the main technique used by whalers today. And now Japan wants to use these same methods on one of the world’s most cherished and peaceful animals: the humpback whale.

What is illegal about Japanese Whaling and what powers are available to stop it?  What are the crimes being committed by Japan? [ read on ].

Japanese Whaling- a source of Japanese national shame.

So much so that I won’t buy another Japanese product until Japan stops whaling.

I have started an international campaign for a Consumers boycott: ‘peoples trade ban’ against Japanese products. Please do so yourself. Sending a message to the Japanese authorities is difficult as it does not take many messages until they close down. Details laterin this page for you to send messages.

[This text via The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - Paul Watson.]:

Appeals by many governments, including the New Zealand government, have failed to convince the Japanese authorities to take action to stop the illegal whaling currently taking place in Antarctic waters. Just what is illegal?; The regulations and the moratorium of the International Whaling Commission, The Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, The Antarctic Treaty territory, The Australian Antarctic Territory, The rules of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) are being violated. Japan claims it is being carried out for “scientific purposes”. That claim has been rejected by the International Whaling Commission and many world governments. The science is a sham; there is no other reason for it than to supply whale meat to the Japanese people and for commercial interests to make huge profits.

This Japanese whaling fleet is a criminal operation, no different than drug traffickers or ivory poachers. The bottom line – whales are dying! They are being systematically slaughtered by a highly illegal operation. .

These whales are being killed, their living flesh torn from their bodies. They are being electrocuted for up to twenty minutes to kill them as their heads are submerged beneath the sea. Imagine the agony of being drowned and electrocuted at the same time as your body pours hot pulsing blood into a cold sea from a gaping wound, and your body is riddled with burning shrapnel from the grenade tipped projectile that exploded with unimaginable pain, shredding your organs yet not killing you.
.

The killing of an endangered species is a crime against nature and it is a crime against humanity.
There is real violence down here in Antarctic waters. Forget about the clang-clang of ship’s hulls against each other. Forget about the minor bruises and soakings from water hoses. Forget about the war of banners and name calling between the Japanese whalers and Greenpeace. This is all trivial stuff. The violence is the horrific death of sensitive, intelligent, socially complex beings that we human beings have absolutely no right to be killing.

Minke whale being dragged up factory ship. Some are still alive and screaming at this point. Photo: Greenpeace.

The protesters are down here because of the screams of the whales– shrill agonizing human-like screams of incredible pain. They are down here because of the blood that is staining the cold seas and is flowing from the drainage pipes of this floating obscenity of an abattoir called the Nisshin Maru. They are down here because they want to stop the flow of blood and the senseless slaughter..

For most people, the oceans and the whales are out of sight and out of mind. But not for us. We are fighting for the whales because we deeply care about the lives of these incredible sentient and intelligent beings. What person among you could stand by and watch a dog being kicked to death and would do nothing? What person among you could stand by and watch a horse whipped to death and would just take pictures. What person among you could witness a kitten tortured and could turn away?

If you are such a person then you are a person of no integrity, no courage, no heart, and no soul – the kind of monster that could pull the trigger and send a deadly harpoon into the back of a fleeing whale.

If you are such a person we could care less what you think for you would be beneath contempt and your opinions undeserving of respect.

The Japanese whalers must be forced out of the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary and if governments refuse to do so then we as non-governmental organizations and as individuals must do so.

    Killing Whales for Science ... or Lunch?

Scientific whaling is commercial whaling in disguise. In fact, the IWC has clearly stated it does not need the information from Japan obtained by killing whales and officially asked them to stop.

Despite repeated IWC objections, Japan has engaged in “scientific” whaling since 1987 by using loopholes in the treaty that governs the IWC. Japan claims that scientific whaling is necessary to determine if whales are hurting commercial fish stocks. Yet some of the whale species killed by Japan do not even eat fish!

Under IWC rules, any meat that results from research whaling must be used, leaving Japan free to sell whale meat in markets and upscale Japanese restaurants. Over two thousand tons of whale meat came back from the Antarctic last year, and they ended up on restaurant tables and store shelves, not labs.

Results of DNA analysis work presented at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) last June reveal your whalers are illegally hunting and trading in endangered whales[1]. Researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, tested 120 pieces of meat, blubber and skin purchased in 1998 and 1999 from Japanese retail shops and fish markets. The tests uncovered products from three protected species - Fin, Sei and Sperm whales, as well as other irregularities.

Photo: Greenpeace

  The Japanese are whaling in violation of the International Whaling Commission's global moratorium on commercial whaling.

The Japanese are killing whales in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary.

The Japanese are killing whales unlawfully in the Australian Antarctic Territory.

The Japanese are targeting fin whales this year and humpback whales next year. These are endangered species, and thus, this is a violation of CITES, the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna.

The Japanese are in violation of IWC regulation 19(a). The IWC regulations in the Schedule to the convention forbid the use of factory ships to process any protected stock: "19. (a) It is forbidden to use a factory ship or a land station for the purpose of treating any whales which are classified as Protection Stocks in paragraph 10. Paragraph 10(c) provides a definition of Protection Stocks and states that Protection Stocks are listed in the Tables of the Schedule. Table 1 lists all the baleen whales, including minke, fin, and humpback whales and states that all of them are Protection Stocks.

In addition, the IWC regulations specifically ban the use of factory ships to process any whales except minke whales: Paragraph 10(d) provides: “(d) Notwithstanding the other provisions of paragraph 10 there shall be a moratorium on the taking, killing or treating of whales, except minke whales, by factory ships or whale catchers attached to factory ships. This moratorium applies to sperm whales, killer whales and baleen whales, except minke whales.” Fin and humpback whales are both baleen whales and are subject to this moratorium.

The legal powers... to stop whaling that Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd are using are contained in the UN World Charter for Nature (1982). Under the charter individuals singly and collectively have an obligation and duty to safeguard nature against illegal activities: · S. 21: States and, to the extent they are able, other public authorities, international organizations, individuals, groups and corporations shall:

(c) Implement the applicable international legal provisions for the conservation of nature, and the protection of the environment;

(d) Ensure that activities within their jurisdiction , or control do not cause damage to the natural systems located within other States or in the areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction;

(e) safeguard and conserve nature in areas beyond national jurisdiction.

· S.24: Each person has a duty to act in accordance with the provisions of the present Charter; acting individually, in association with others or through participation in the political process, each person shall strive to ensure that the objectives and requirements of the present charter are met. "WHAT HAVE THEY TAKEN OR PLAN TO TAKE?In 2002, Japanese whalers took 5 Sperm, 39 Sei, 50 Bryde's and 150 Minke Whales in the northern catch area and 440 Minke Whales in the southern catchment area. The catch was carried out under the IWC's special licence for whaling research.
Total numbers for the 2004-2005 whaling season were 441 minke whales ( SH area pelagic ) 100 minke whales ( NP area pelagic ) and 60 minke whales in coastal regions of Japan. 3 sperm whales and 51 Bryde´s whales were also taken ( pelagic ) during this period bringing the total number of whales in the 2004/05 season to 780 ( Source IWC official figures )
In 2005, the JARPA scientific research program was replaced by the JARPA-II program, which increases the quota of Minke whales to 900, and more controversially, adds Fin whales to the program, with a quota of 10 animals in 2005. This move has sparked a great deal of controversy among anti-whaling nations, in particular because fin whales are listed as endangered under the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species. From 2007, Japan plans to start taking up to 50 humpback whales and 50 fin whales annually.

Humpback Breeching

TAKE ACTION, TAKE ACTION

Messages can be sent to the Japanese Prime Minister,

Junichiro Koizumi at:    jpm@kantei.go.jp    or if it gets undelivered try:          http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment.html   It maybe overloaded! [They have now denied direct access-you can get there by going to their home page http://www.kantei.go.jp and follow the links to "contact" or do a search in the box provided for"contact us".]

Dear PM Koizumi,                            Until the Japanese stop illegal whaling in I will not buy any Japanese made goods and I will encourage all my friends and family to do the same. [you can add up to a max of 2000 characters on the web contact page].

To send an instant letter to the PM & Minister of Fisheries about so called research whaling   [ see this sites link page-go to the top of this page and click link]       http://whales.netfirms.com/alert/japan/letter.html

This is the email of the email administrators of the Japanese Prime Minister:   Žñ‘ŠŠ¯“@HP”Mê—p   hentou@kantei.go.jp Give this a go as well.

Send a message to the Japanese Minister of Fisheries Mr Yoichi Tani   white56@maff.go.jp   or http://www.voice.maff.go.jp/maff-interactive/people/ShowWebFormAction.do?FORM_NO=5   they may block access, so go to http://www.voice.maff.go.jp or http://www.maff.go.jp and find the 'contact us' details.

Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs:   http://www.mofa.go.jp/feedback/note.html or if they deny access try the links in www.hofa.go.jp or an email to webmaster@mofa.go.jp

Japan Environment Ministry email: ¡¼ÅÅ»Ò¥á ¥ë

Japan Environment Ministry email: ¡¼ÅÅ»Ò¥á ¥ë   wildlife@env.go.jp
Australians: see the link page [at top of page ] for a boycott of Japanese cars and the action you can take in Australia. See: www.stopwhaling.org.au
Komei Political Party:
http://oubo.fresheye.com/access_page/komeitou/en/contact/index.html

   Democractic Party of Japan email: dpjenews@dpj.or.jp



   Japanese Communist Party email: info@jcp.or.jp

   External Trade Organisation:   http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/contact/
          [ I'm sure I will find more, if you have send an email to: dave@stopwhaling.co.nz    we may as well annoy every whale killer we can.]

Send a letter to a Japanese newspaper:
suisan@suisantimes.co.jp    dy@yomiuri.com : jtric@japantimes.co.jp
Manichi Daily News:
http://mb.mainichi-msn.co.jp/cgi-bin/bbs_e/KU01.cgi?CID=00000001&ID=00000001

Find your Japanese Embassy:

    NZ Japanese Embassy: http://www.nz.emb-japan.go.jp/feedback.html   Leave a message.

List of all Japanese Embassies:

          http://www.mofa.go.jp/about/emb_cons/mofaserv.html

International Whaling Commission, Members & commissioners at:

http://www.iwcoffice.org/commission/members.htm



Humpback, Taken in Tonga [during Antarctic Winter], where they go to calf and mate. In a years time there could 50 less due to illegal Japanese Whaling Plans. These Whales earn a significant proportion of the Tongan annual income [repeated every year], many times the value of being turned into Japanese dog food and school lunches. The Japanese contempt for these creatures intrinsic value and world opinion deserves to be punished by us, because no Government has the intestinal fortitude to take direct action against the Japanese whaling fleet. Go Paul Watson – sink as many as you can, while the rest of us stop buying their products.




species population status and listings*

northern right whale 500-1,000 endangered (ESA, IUCN)

southern right whale 3,000 endangered (ESA); vulnerable (IUCN)

bowhead whale 8,000 endangered (ESA, IUCN)

blue whale 10,000-14,000 endangered (ESA, IUCN)

fin whale 120,000-150,000 endangered (ESA); vulnerable (IUCN)

sei whale 50,000 endangered (ESA)

humpback whale 10,000+ endangered (ESA, IUCN)

sperm whale 200,000 endangered (ESA)

vaquita a few hundred endangered (ESA)

baiji about 300 endangered (ESA, IUCN)

Indus susu 500 endangered (ESA, IUCN)

Ganges susu unknown vulnerable (IUCN)

boto unknown; thought to be declining vulnerable (IUCN)

franciscana unknown not listed

tucuxi unknown not listed

Hector's dolphin 3,000-4,000 vulnerable (IUCN)

Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin unknown; thought to be depleted not listed

Atlantic humpbacked dolphin unknown, but depleted not listed

* "ESA" denotes listing according to the Endangered Species Act. "IUCN" denotes listing
According to the IUCN/World Conservation Union Red Data book.

Below is a Chart of the total whales killed between 1986 (when the moratorium supposedly came into force) and 2001. (Compiled based on detailed yearly whaling statistics from http://luna.pos.to/whale/sta.html)

YEAR

Japan

Russia

Denmark

Iceland

Norway

USA

Other

TOTALS FOR YEAR

1986

2769

3197

156

116

379

30

71

6718

1987

2762

3186

99

100

375

31

2

6555

1988

273

150

128

78

29

29

0

687

1989

241

179

87

68

17

26

0

618

1990

330

162

114

0

5

44

0

655

1991

327

169

117

0

1

46

1

661

1992

288

0

137

0

95

50

2

572

1993

330

0