Japan will hold winter whale hunt, despite protests --By Brad Lendon, CNN October 5, 2011
Fishermen butcher a bottlenose whale at the Wada port(国际反兴奋剂机构) east of Tokyo on June 25, 2008
Japan will hold winter whale hunt, despite protests
Japan says it will hunt whales in the Southern Ocean this winter and will send a Fisheries Agency(渔业署) ship to guard its whalers against promised intervention by a conservation group.
Japan will hold winter whale hunt, despite protests
Last winter, Japan cut short its planned December-to-April hunt by two months after anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society(海洋守护者协会) repeatedly interfered with the whaling vessels.
Japan will hold winter whale hunt, despite protests
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Sea Shepherd(海洋守护者) claims it saved 800 whales by its actions during last season‘s hunt. Japanese whalers killed 171 minke whales(小须鲸) and two fin whales(长须鲸) during the Antarctic hunt, according to IWC(国际捕鲸委员会) figures.
In a statement issued last Friday, Sea Shepherd vowed to take on the whaling vessels again.
Japan will hold winter whale hunt, despite protests
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Kano said Japan wants to continue research whaling with the aim of establishing that whale stocks are sufficient to resume a mercial hunt (建立鲸鱼存量足以恢复一个完整的商业狩猎)in the future, according to Japanese media reports.
Sea Shepherd contends that the research hunts are a sham(虚假谎言), with mea
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