Journalist, scientist united in stand against whaling (discoverer of humpback songs)

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Source: Gloucester Daily Times

Journalist, scientist united in stand against whaling; Researcher talks of making Gloucester his home
By Gail McCarthy , Staff writer
Gloucester Daily Times

Two men who live a half a world apart and have spent years crusading against the whaling industry met again in Gloucester Harbor yesterday.

Takeshi Hara, a Japanese professor and journalist, came to Gloucester to interview American biologist Roger Payne, the man noted for the discovery that humpback whales sing.

They were aboard the 93-foot Odyssey, which recently returned to Gloucester, a place it would like to call its home port. The red-hulled Odyssey is a research vessel of Ocean Alliance, an environmental group Payne founded in 1971.

The Odyssey also was used as the platform for filming the IMAX movie, "Whales: The IMAX Experience," which is showing at the New England Aquarium.

Hara, who works in the area of environment and sustainable development, met with Payne as part of his research for what will be a two-page spread in Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun, a major Japanese newspaper.

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