Ocean Sentry
(From afp.google.com) Tokyo – Since they left on June 6, the ships caught 100 sei whales, 59 minke whales, 50 Bryde”s whales and two sperm whales, the agency said Friday. The Japanese government, which says whaling is part of the national culture, plans to kill around 1,000 whales a year using a loophole in a 1986 international moratorium that allows “lethal research” on whales.
Japan’s last catch in the Antarctic Ocean earlier this year came to little more than half of that due to harassment by Sea Shepherd activists, who hurled stink bombs and hopped onto the whaling ship.
