Japan fleet catches 177 whales in latest hunt

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Daily Tribune

AUGUST 23, 2018

Tokyo : A fleet of Japanese whaling ships caught 177 minke and sei whales during a three-month tour of the northwestern Pacific, the government said Wednesday. The three-ship mission returned home as Tokyo prepares to make its case to resume commercial whaling at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Brazil next month.

During the latest 98-day mission, the ships caught 43 minke whales and 134 sei whales, the Fisheries Agency said in a statement. Foreign pressure on Japan to stop whaling has only made conservatives and politicians more resolute about continuing their push to resume commercial whaling. It is a rare thorny issue in Tokyo’s otherwise amiable diplomacy.

“Data that were gathered during this mission will be analysed, along with results from coastal research programmes,” the agency said. The data “will be presented to IWC’s scientific committee, and will enhance scientific knowledge for conserving and managing cetacean resources.” The latest mission was part of a 12-year project to study the number, eating patterns, and biology of whales that Japan wants to analyse to support its claim that certain whales are not endangered and could be caught for consumption.

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[MFM008]

1. Bullshit

Killing MORE will NOT increase the species.

[Shemp Howard]

5. It's all a sick smokescreen.

From what I understand, there's a loophole in the international laws banning the hunting of whales: whales can still be taken for research purposes. So the Japanese whalers always claim that their killing is done for research purposes.

Notice that in the article the Japanese agency babbles on about "data" and such. It's all a sick smokescreen. They don't care about research, or data. All they care about is killing whales for profit. How they continue to get away with it is beyond me.

[Angry Dragon]

2. not good

[PearliePoo2]

3. I read that the Japanese younger generation don't even have an appetite for whale and that

tons of whale meat sits in freezers unwanted.

FUCKERS!

[Bayard]

6. Exactly

And nobody believes they need 170 whales for research.

No commercial whaling, period. Including this bullshit.

[Omaha Steve]

4. Sink the whale fleet

[Coventina]

7. WE MUST KILL THE WHALES TO SAVE THEM!!!

[hunter]

8. The Japanese whale hunters are similar to our own so-called conservatives.

At this point they're just doing it to piss everyone off.

Rolling Coal

[csziggy]

9. I got sutck behind one of those "rolling coal" trucks a few months ago

He tried to push me into another lane when he was illegally merging. I refused to get over when I had no space to do so. Further up the road when I signaled a lane change he again illegally hanged lanes to get in front of me and then spewed black smoke for the next mile until he finally turned off. He HAD to have gone out of his way to do so since the direction he was originally going was the exact opposite of where he ended up.

I was laughing at him though - he had a bumper sticker on his truck that said "I am overcompensating for something." I'm thinking it was for an under sized penis.

ETA - I think it was that a woman in a Prius wouldn't give way to him that pissed him off. Whomp, whomp.