bianco
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Japan’s annual Antarctic hunt is controversial because it technically invades Australian waters and catch Australian whales without the government's permission. The previous Labour government ended up siding with environmental activists who became famous through a TV programme called "Whale Wars" and whaling in general has become increasingly obsolete and illegitimate in recent years in the eyes of the TV audience. Japan could still run a smaller scientific programme in the northern Pacific, while abiding by the ICJ's ruling, and Australia's Sea Shepherd would not challenge Japan's indigenous whaling done in its own waters. The consumption of whale meat has dwindled over the last decade and more than 2,300 minke whales worth of meat is sitting in freezers. Japan should scale down its whaling operations dramatically without worrying about protecting jobs in the whaling industry and it no longer makes economic sense to catch more than 1,000 whales per annum due to low demand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGTFiEnRPY
JAPAN says it is cancelling its annual Antarctic whaling hunt for the first time in more than a quarter of a century in line with a UN court ruling. A “deeply disappointed” Tokyo earlier this week said it would honour Tuesday’s judgment by the United Nations’ Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the program was a commercial activity disguised as science. Tokyo, however, did not exclude the possibility of future whaling programs. Today, officials said the next Antarctic hunt, which would have started in late 2014, had been scrapped, just weeks after the most recent one finished. “We have decided to cancel research whaling (in the Antarctic) for the fiscal year starting in April because of the recent ruling,” a fisheries agency official said. But he added that “we plan to go ahead with research whaling in other areas as scheduled”, including the northern Pacific. Japan also has a coastal whaling program that is not covered by a commercial whaling ban.
Japan cancels annual Antarctic whaling hunt after UN court ruling | News.com.au
Of course Japan does.
I'm surprised it decided to even abide by the ICJ's ruling at all.
It'll continue slaughtering whales in the northern Pacific, and all its like-minded best-friend lovers of slaughtering whales will continue supporting it.
All the ones who vote with it at the IWC meetings.
They all stand condemned.
The whale and dolphin wars continue ...not sure what if anythng Sea Shepherd can do about it...that US Court is after them.
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