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Japan is seeking international support for its plans to hunt minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean next year by scaling down the whaling research program the U.N. top court rejected earlier this year, fisheries officials said Wednesday…
Japan Will Conduct Pacific Whale Hunt In Wake Of Court Ruling, Reuters (04-18-2014)
Japan said it would conduct a sharply scaled down form of its annual Northwest Pacific whaling campaign this year despite an international court ruling last month against the mainstay of its whaling program in the Antarctic…
Science Is No Excuse For Japan’s Antarctic Whaling, Court Rules, Nature (Uploaded 04-01-2014)
Japan’s hugely controversial ‘scientific whaling’ programme is not actually scientific and must be stopped, the International Court of Justice ruled March 31st, 2014…
Japan Whale Hunt Set To Begin With Smaller Catch Target, AP / Huffington Post
The annual spring hunt along Japan’s northern coast is to begin next week, and the distant northern Pacific expedition in May, with another coastal hunt planned in the autumn…
Norway Whale Catch Reaches Highest Number Since 1993, Guardian UK (08-25-2014)
Fishermen in Norway have caught 729 whales this year, the highest number since it resumed the controversial practice in defiance of international pressure…
