Marine Mammals in Asian Societies; Trends in Consumption, Bait, and Traditional Use

◦ Regular documentation of both open and covert trade; ◦ A shift in focus in some diminishing traditional hunts to other marine mammal species; ◦ A possible revival in some targeted hunts, which had previously ceased; ◦ The recent implication of some cultures, which have little history of marine mammal consumption previously, in targeted hunts; and ◦ The growing importation of marine mammal parts from outside of Asia.