Dolphins from Taiji Bay Slaughterhouse will no longer be purchased for aquariums and marine parks in Japan. This was decided by the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA), after the threats of expulsion from the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA)
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I dolphins from the Taiji bay slaughterhouse they will no longer be purchased for aquariums and marine parks in Japan. The decided the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA), following threats of expulsion from the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA).
JAZA members voted in favor of stop the sale of live dolphins from the city of Taiji, where the annual slaughter of hundreds of cetaceans attracted worldwide attention, especially after the film The Cove, which revealed the truth about Death Bay.
Here hundreds of dolphins are pushed ashore to be selected. Some, the most beautiful, the best, will end up in captivity. Those selected for marine parks are forced to watch their "less attractive" family members while they are massacred for the meat market. Only dolphins without scratches, scars, of a certain age and species, are chosen for captivity.
This will be followed by detention in an artificial environment and a long fast, so that the captured specimens decide to eat dead fish, instead of the live prey they would have eaten in the wild. For this reason, activists have been denouncing the million dollar business behind the slaughter. Each specimen is sold at a price that can reach as high as $ 100.000.
This is a good step forward. According to estimates, 40% of the dolphins caught each year in Taiji Bay have so far been sold to Japanese Jaza aquariums and dolphinariums. This means that the decision will inflict a hard blow for Japanese hunters, marking the beginning of their end.
"Given that 40% of the total dolphins captured in Taiji were sold to JAZA member aquariums or dolphinariums and each animal was also sold to 100.000$ will understand that it will be a severe economic blow to Taiji fishermen given that a large part of the remaining 60% is sold for food purposes at far lower prices ”, comments Be Animals.
Roberta Ragni
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