Also this year in Japan it will be possible to hunt whales for commercial purposes: the hunting season has officially begun
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himIn Japan the season of the whaling for commercial purposes for the third consecutive year, after a thirty-one year break.
Four boats have already left the ports yesterday: two left at dawn from Ishinomaki, in Miyagi prefecture, joined by another two games from Hachinohe, in Aomori prefecture. To these will be added a fifth ship which will depart from Abashiri, Hokkaido, in the month of June.
The Fisheries Agency estimates that in total e slaughter hundreds of fin whales from now to the close of the season, at the end of October.
“We want to provide fresh and delicious whales for all who are waiting,” the chilling statement from Nobuyuki Ito, president of one of the hunting companies involved.
Despite the protests, Japan resumed whaling for commercial purposes starting July 1, 2019, exactly the day after the country left the IGW, the International Whaling Commission. (Read also: Japan resumes whaling and exits the IWC)
As an IWC member, by 1988 Japan had stopped commercial hunting to the whale, even though he never stopped killing whales for research purposes (Read also: After 31 years, Japan resumes whaling (but had never stopped).
La whaling is now prohibited in most countries: in Japan, Norway and Iceland it is unfortunately still practiced and every year it causes death of thousands of cetaceans.
Reference source: The Japan Times
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