Alexey Yablokov

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1. Story
2. The Russian biologist who made the falsification of Soviet whaling records public. The USSR ran a global campaign of illegal whaling from 1948, with fleets keeping two sets of books - a falsified return for the International Whaling Commission and a true record retained internally. Yablokov published the first account of the real scale in 1994. On the reconstructed figures, Soviet fleets killed on the order of 330,000 whales in the Southern Ocean while reporting about 185,000, and took protected blue whales in numbers subsequently revised upward past three thousand. The relevance to this Journey is not the crime but the epistemics: the catch series used to reconstruct blue whale populations had to be repaired decades after the fact.
3. Knowledge
4. Alexey Yablokov
5. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
6. Connections
7. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
8. Soviet fleets take protected whales and file false returns
9. The true scale of Soviet whaling is published
10. Alexey Yablokov
11. Alexey Yablokov
12. International Whaling Commission
13. Evidence
14. The USSR conducted illegal whaling from 1948, fleets keeping a falsified return for the IWC alongside a true internal record; Yablokov published the first account of the real scale in 1994, indicating roughly 330,000 whales killed in the Southern Ocean against about 185,000 reported. Protected blue whales were taken; the reconstructed number is given inconsistently across accounts, from one or two thousand to more than three thousand. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this literature; no catch-data paper was fetched and no single blue whale total is asserted.