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Related: About this forumJapanese ships exploit loophole in international law, embark on annual whaling hunt for ‘research’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/07/japanese-ships-exploit-loophole-in-international-law-embark-on-annual-whaling-hunt-for-research/Japanese ships exploit loophole in international law, embark on annual whaling hunt for research
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, September 7, 2014 9:06 EDT
A fleet of four Japanese ships left the northern main island of Hokkaido on Sunday to start the seasonal research whaling hunt in Pacific coastal waters, local media said.
Japans Fisheries Agency has said whalers planned to kill up to 51 minke whales in waters off Kushiro city through the end of October.
Japan has hunted whales under a loophole in the 1986 global moratorium that allows lethal research on the mammals, but has made no secret of the fact that their meat ends up in restaurants and fish markets.
Agency officials could not be immediately reached on Sunday.
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Japanese ships exploit loophole in international law, embark on annual whaling hunt for ‘research’ (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Sep 2014
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FBaggins
(26,748 posts)1. It really isn't a "loophole"... it's how the "law" was designed.
Most people mistakenly assume that he 1986 "global moratorium" was the result of a worldwide acceptance that we shouldn't kill these magnificent creatures. Unfortunately, while that was true for some countries, it wasn't how the moratorium was passed. It's really just a recogition that some species had been overfished and we needed to stop harvesting them until their populations recovered.
It isn't at all unusual for research into fish stocks to include catching those species to review the state of the fishery... even when those fish are otherwise banned for commercial fishing.
PoutrageFatigue
(416 posts)2. But it's still total bullshit...
...and everyone knows it...
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)3. Japan, and Norway. Horrible choices they are making regarding the remaining whales. Monstrous. n/t