Japan will resume commercial whaling on July XNUMXst. By December the country had left the international organization that deals with regulating whaling around the world.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himDespite international protests, Japan will resume commercial whaling on July XNUMXst. In December, the country left the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the international organization that regulates whaling around the world.
The decision had already been announced by the Japanese government which had tried to obtain permission to return whale hunting while staying within the IWC. The attempt failed, but unfortunately we know well that in all these years Japan has never stopped killing cetaceans. Hiding behind bureaucratic quibbles and legislative gaps, the country has always hunted, hiding the massacres as scientific research missions.
Now the Kyodo agency, which cites local sources of fishermen in the town of Kushiro, on the northernmost island of the archipelago, says that on July XNUMXst they will return to hunting in the Hokkaido region.
Tokyo hopes that the hunt will take place in the waters of its exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and no longer in the Antarctic Ocean, adding that the vessels will respect the limits on fishing quotas to ensure that the cetacean population does not decrease.
But why Japan wants to continue hunting is not entirely clear, considering that the consumption of whale meat has become less popular and even declining, to the point that in recent years, it is precisely the government that finances the sector that has not manages to sustain itself.
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Dominella Trunfio
