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Japan has completed its possibly last hunting season in Antarctica. Here, more than twice as many minke whales were hunted as last year. Actually, the competent authority would even catch significantly more animals in the Southern Ocean.

From the 3rd January to 13 March took the hunting season in Antarctica, now the Japanese Fisheries Agency has drawn balance: total of 251 minke whales killed in the Southern Ocean – considerably more than in the previous year, when 103 animals were killed. However, you have far wide of the mark of 935 animals this year, the authority said. Fin whales were not killed.

The end of March , the International Court of Justice (ICJ ) in The Hague had Japan whaling in the Antarctic forbidden – at least in the context of the current program . The reason given was that hunting serves commercial and non-research purposes. The good 70 – page ruling is legally binding and can not be challenged. Japan announced that it would follow the decision and stop the whaling program at least for the current year . Environmentalists cheered the decision .

However, Japan’s Fisheries Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi indicated in the judgment that the last word has not yet spoken : “We will look at the judgment and find ways to continue whaling . ” Tokyo could its fleet despite the court ruling send out again – with a trick. The Japanese government could make a fresh start and rebuild the program after the ICJ rules – a little smaller perhaps , additionally equipped with non-lethal research methods .

Whale Hunting Ban:Whaling for their own consumption

Well, more than 15,000 whales killed by count of animal rights activists since 1987 Japan. The government in Tokyo never denied here is that the whale meat is also consumed. The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling in 1986. Besides Japan, Norway and Iceland are committed to hunting on marine mammals. Unlike Japan, they operate regardless of the moratorium open commercial whaling.

Formally, the other whaling countries are not bound by the current ICJ decision. The situation is different for the indigenous people in the Arctic, for example, to Greenland. There, a small number of whales for their own consumption may be caught.

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