Saturday, March 26, 2016

Japan kills 333 minke whales

A crew member mans the harpoon on a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic in 1993. Japan has gotten around the international ban on whaling by saying it's conducting "scientific research," but the U.N. International Court of Justice banned the practice, ruling that the "scientific research" rationale is a smokescreen for commercial whaling.
Japan's whaling fleet has returned with more than 300 whales harvested from Antarctic waters, according to the country's Fisheries Agency.
A four-ship fleet from Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research traveled to the Antarctic Ocean and killed 333 minke whales. Some 230 were female; about 90% of these were pregnant, according to the report.
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