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Governments begin deliberating
the future of whaling.
Whale & Dolphin Conservation
Society (WDCS)

12 June 2010

Harpooning the Myths:
Japan and whaling

Episode 60 - 21m:36s

Whale Hunter Hunters
At the Edge of the World.
Mighty Movie podcasts (MMP)

27 August 2009

IWC 62

Commercial Whaling put on hold for another year

The international talks on the future of whaling collapsed last night when a compromise plan allowing a limited resumption of commercial whaling was put on hold for another year.

Several Japanese newspapers, and the country's main wire service, Kyodo, reported that the compromise - devised by IWC chairman Cristian Maquiera - would now be subject to a one year 'cooling-off period'.

There has been major division at the conference between the anti-whaling nations, with the US and New Zealand seeking a compromise, and Australia, which is challenging Japan's scientific whaling in the International Court of Justice, refusing to give ground... IWC Meeting Report



"Norway announced an increased quota of minke whales so we decided to increase our quota of sunken whalers" - AGENDA 21 Agenda 21


Whaling vessel Sofie, April 2010

The Skarbakk, April 2009

The Willassen Senior, August 2007

Sea Shepherd President - Captain Paul Watson

Antarctic Campaign Report - Success Defending Whales!


Sea Shepherd & Illegal Japanese Whaler

From the water cannon battles between the Japanese Whaling Fleet and the Sea Shepherd Intervention Ships, to the high-level Australian and New Zealand diplomatic showdowns with Japan, this battle is being fought on many levels and in many places. With ships being rammed and sunk, and prisoners of war being taken back to Japan, the conflict was more intense this year than ever before.

But it was down in the cold and remote seas off the icebound coast of Antarctica where Sea Shepherd ships and crew made the most significant difference by actually saving the lives of hundreds of whale and costing the outlaw Japanese whalers tens of millions of dollars in lost profits.

For three straight weeks from February 5th until February 26th the Sea Shepherd vessels prevented the entire Japanese whaling fleet from killing a single whale. The month before, Sea Shepherd shut the whalers down for twelve days making thirty-three solid whaling-free days, which is one-third of their whaling season.

This season marks the third year for the television series coverage of our Antarctic Whale Defense Campaigns. The Animal Planet show "Whale Wars" caught all of the drama of the conflicts and skirmishes in high definition, so there can be no doubt as to what is going down in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary this year... Antarctic Campaign Report

MV Bob Barker rammed by Yushin Maru 3
MV Bob Barker rammed
by Illegal Whaler
MV Bob Barker shuts down illegal whaling
MV Bob Barker shuts
down Illegal Whaling
MV Bob Barker to Rescue the Whales
MV Bob Barker to
Rescue the Whales
Japan Deploys LRAD Against Sea Shepherd Helicopter
Japan Deploys LRAD Against
Sea Shepherd Helicopter

Editorial: A Pointless and Cruel Slaughter

Captain Watson: Japanese Whaling Fleet is a Criminal Operation

Southern Ocean Whaling Conflict Implications - Paul G. Buchanan

Japan Vows to Carry on Whaling

Japanese whalers have the full backing of their government to hunt their prey. Japan's new centre-left government has vowed to continue its policy of scientific research whaling.

In an interview with the ABC, Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada has revealed that his government has no intention of reviewing the policy.

And the minister says that eating whale meat is an important element of Japanese culture that must be respected by Australians. . . Japan Whaling

The Cove: Dolphin Slaughter in Japan

The Cove: Taiji

In the remote village of Taiji, Japan a team of activists and filmakers witness and document activities deliberately being hidden from the public: More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat.

There are more than 200 captive dolphin exhibits in more than 60 countries out there today. Thousands of dolphins are not only slaughtered for dolphin meat often peddled as higher-priced whale meat in Japan, but live dolphins chosen by trainers from around the world will bring in revenue upward of US$154,000 per show-quality specimen, and are a huge economic driver of the hunts. . . savejapandolphins.org Secret Dolphin slaughter defies protests . . . Taiji Dolphin Slaughter


"The world today will either be stepping forward into an era where conservation and the environment really matter, or it will be stepping back into the Dark Ages, where the people of the world think that the slaughter of whales using grenades, electric lances and shooting them with rifles is something that we should accept."

Ian Campbell, Australian Environment Minister - 57th IWC AGM, Monday, June 20, 2005

The Australian Federal Court has ordered a Japanese whaling company to stop killing whales in Australian Antarctic waters

"If all nations in the world took 1000 whales each year, the stocks would soon be exhausted. What gives one nation the right to a larger portion of the resources of the planet that all nations hold in common?"
Sir Geoffrey Palmer, NZ Commissioner to the IWC.Japan must be expelled from the IWC

Iceland whaling
Many consumers simply will not want to buy fish from sources that are linked to killing whales

Iceland Minister Warns on Whaling

REYKJAVIK, 20 May, 2008 (BBC) - Iceland's whalers have embarked on this year's hunt with the country's foreign minister warning that whaling may damage Iceland's "long term interests".

Boats left to begin the hunt on Tuesday after the fisheries ministry issued a quota of 40 minke whales for 2008. Officials say the hunt is sustainable and justified by market demand. The British government and several environmental groups joined foreign minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir in criticising the decision . . . Iceland Minister Warns on Whaling

World's Oceans once Teemed with Whales

Oceans once teemed with whales

The oceans once teemed with many more now endangered marine mammals than previously thought, new genetic studies of whales suggest.

Whalemeat samples bought from a Japanese sushi market and analysed by scientists indicate that experts have seriously underestimated the size of the populations that roamed the seas before industrial- scale hunting began more than a century ago. The numbers of some species may have been 10 times greater than previously calculated.

The findings refute suggestions by whaling nations such as Japan that a resumption of hunting is justified by the increase of many whale populations beyond their natural size, the researchers said. . . Dolphin Drive returns to Futo, Japan


Norwegian whaling ship with a minke whale butchered on deck
Norwegian whaling ship with a minke whale butchered on deck. Photo: WSPA/EIA

Norway's Whaling Defies Logic

Norway's 2010 whaling quota of 1286 is their largest since choosing to defy the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1983 and defies logic as the market for whalemeat simply isn't there.

This is the first time in recent years that Norway has overtaken Japan in terms of the sheer number of animals they plan to slaughter. This new Japan-beating target is more about politics than anything else.

Norway's own official data shows that at least one in five hunted whales suffer long and agonizing deaths from harpoon and rifle wounds - visibility, sea swells and whale movements make it impossible to ensure a humane kill.

Norway whale kill graph
Whales killed annually since Norway resumed
commercial whaling

Norwegians should NOT kill Minke whales



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Icelandic Humpbacks Monitored

REYKJAVIK, 1 December, 2008 - The Icelandic Marine Research Institute has been monitoring the movements of a humpback whale since early November.

It was marked along with other whales with a satellite transmitter in Eyjafjördur, north Iceland, on November 6 and has since made it to south Icelandic waters. Another humpback that was marked at the same time has remained in Eyjafjördur, in all likelihood feeding on capelin, Morgunbladid reports. The purpose with the project is to study the movements of baleen whales around Iceland and their travels out of Icelandic waters in the fall. Unlike other baleen whales in the North Atlantic, not much is known about the humpback. Its only known winter breeding location is in the Caribbean. Some of the humpbacks that reside around Icelandic in summer travel to the Caribbean in winter, but others appear to be of an unknown stock and breed elsewhere. A considerable number of humpback whales seem to remain in Icelandic waters in winter and are known to feed on capelin. The project is supervised by Gísli Víkingsson at the Icelandic Marine Research Institute. Icelandic Humpback whales Monitored


Japan MUST be Expelled from the IWC

When it comes down to the smooth running of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and it's orderly administration which country is the most disruptive? Which country gives aid money for votes? Which country takes up far too much time at meetings? Which country consistantly ignores the wishes of the Commission? Which country still kills whales?

Japan!

When it comes down to who wants to kill whales, on a per capita basis, the details are quite astounding. It makes one wonder how a small group of people can disrupt a perfectly good international organisation and simply "buck the system". . . Japan must be expelled from the IWC


International Anti-whaling Campaign

The Whalewatch report, Troubled Waters, was published March 9th to mark the start of the global campaign against whaling.

Britain's best-known naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, stresses the point in his foreword to the report. "The following pages contain hard scientific dispassionate evidence that there is no humane way to kill a whale at sea," says the broadcaster.

JOIN the 'Whalewatch' campaign and add your voice to an unprecedented coalition of over 140 conservation organisations (NGO's) from more than 55 countries lobbying the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to call a halt to all commercial and scientific whaling operations, maintain the current ban on commercial whaling and bring the issue of cruelty back to the fore . . .Anti-whaling Campaign

Read the report - Troubled Waters


Whales are Not the Major Causes of Dwindling Fish Stocks

Humpback feeding

N.O.A.A. US Department of Commerce

Do whales and other marine mammals compete with humans for fisheries resources? Should whales be hunted to save fish stocks? Today's marine science community has enough expertise and experience with the complex ocean ecosystem to recognise that the "competition" claim is oversimplified and the hunting proposal is biologically unsound.

As a whole, whales do not eat "large quantities of fish as food," nor do they threaten the health of the world's limited marine fish resources. Some whale species do prey on fish, but often on fish that humans do not consume. In truth, humans are primarily responsible for fisheries declines. It is humans who continue to threaten the world's stocks through overfishing and reluctance to allow stocks to naturally replenish . . .Whales are Not the Major Causes of Dwindling Fish Stocks


Japan Fights Whale Conservation Measure

Japan Fights Whale Conservation

The International Whaling Commission opened its annual meeting in Berlin under the threat of a Japanese walkout if the Commission adopts a hotly contested measure designed to improve whale protection.

The latest clash between pro-whaling nations and those pushing for more conservation involves a 31-page proposal to form a committee charged with "strengthening the conservation agenda" within the 50-nation whaling commission.

The 19 sponsors of the "Berlin Initiative" include the United States, Britain and Australia. The measure calls for working with global wildlife groups to better protect the marine mammals. Japan says the proposal focuses too much on conservation at the expense of sustainable harvests. The meeting began with an argument between the commission's pro- and anti-whaling factions over whether it should be dropped from the agenda altogether . . .Japan Fights Whale Conservation


Japan should NOT kill porpoises to eat
Open Letter to the Government of Japan
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Say NO to Navy Noise

US Navy Protester
Eco-activist Diana Mann
Photo by Jack Gould

Low frequency active sonar is based on very low frequency sound [100-1000 Hz] can travel great distances and detect quiet submarines. The system uses intense sound. The US Navy has given a figure of sounds as loud as 235 decibels generated by massive sound transmitters towed behind TAGOS-class ships. The noise level of a jet engine is about 120 decibels.

A NATO LFA exercise in 1998 left numerous dead beaked whales on the coast of Greece. LFA testing off the Island of Hawaii in 1998 caused humpback whales to leave the test area, apparently resulted in separation of whale and dolphin calves from their mothers, and injured a snorkeler in the water. . . Say NO to Navy Noise

US Navy/WHOI LFAS Research Exposed - Lanny Sinkin



18 Countries Call on Japan to End Scientific Whaling

Japanese Whalers in Antarctica

Australia joined 17 other countries in making a demarche to Japan opposing its scientific whaling program.

The demarche sets out our strong concerns about Japan's continuing program of lethal whaling. Australia is disappointed that Japan is now expanding its program of whaling in the North Pacific to include another species, the Sei whale.

There is ample evidence that the scientific objectives of Japan's research program could be achieved using non-lethal means. . .18 Countries Call on Japan to End Scientific Whaling


Gray Whale Numbers Shrink by Thousands

Gray Whale

The population of Eastern North Pacific gray whales has dropped in the past four years from an estimated high of more than 26,000 to less than 18,000, alarming environmentalists but drawing no major concern from federal scientists who monitor the once-endangered whales.

Environmentalists see the drop as a sign that the whale's population is still threatened by hunting, pollution, climate change and dwindling food supplies. . .Gray Whale Numbers Shrink by Thousands


CAUTION: Whale meat is hazardous to your health

Health Hazard

That message to Japan's finicky consumers could end up being more damaging to Tokyo's hopes of resuming commercial whaling than years of campaigning by environmentalists focused on endangered species.

"If it became more widely known that this meat was contaminated, people who want to eat whale would probably stop," said Koichi Haraguchi, a researcher at Dai-Ichi College of Pharmaceutical Sciences in western Japan.

So far, though, most Japanese consumers seem blithely unaware that the whale meat they see as a gourmet delight may be tainted with dangerous mercury and toxic chemicals. . . CAUTION: Whale meat is hazardous to your health




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