Japan to Kick off Whale Hunting Season in North Pacific this Week
TOKYO – Japan will begin Saturday its annual spring whale hunt in the North Pacific, which will last till May, Japan’s Fisheries Agency announced.
The Japanese fleet, comprising four whalers, will set sail from Ishinomaki in northeastern Japan with a target to hunt a maximum of 51 minke whales in an area of around 80 kilometers (50 miles) …
Latin American Herald Tribune – April 7, 2016
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Japan is accused with “Crime Against Nature – Inglewood Daily Science
After a judgment by an international court pressured Japan to stop hunting whales in Antarctica for a year, the country is scheduled to send whaling ships there again .A Japanese whaling fleet set sail for the Antarctic on Tuesday, on a mission to resume the slaughter after a one-year pause, with environmentalists slamming the move as a “crime against nature”.Government officials and families of crew members stood on the quayside and waved as ships—at least one fitted with a powerful harpoon – left a southern port, television footage showed …
Daily Star Gazette – April 7, 2016
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