NEWPORT, Ore. – In a continuing effort to monitor Japanese whaling, Oregon State University's Marine Mammal Institute did DNA sampling on whale meat from Japanese markets.

The findings, reported to the International Whaling Commission meetings this month in Chile, were that meat from at least 15 individual fin whales was sold in 2006 and 2007.

That is two more than the Japanese government had reported killing as part of its scientific whaling program during the same period.

Scott Baker, associated director of the institute, says they don't know where the other two whales came from, but there remain concerns that whales are being killed illegally, or are not being properly reported and documented.

The institute has been doing the testing of whale meat from Japanese markets since 1994.