Posted on 07/21/2010 7:49:38 PM PDT by sinanju
” Research is permitted in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, commercial whaling is explicitly forbidden. Got that?”
No, I don’t “got that” but tell me something. I note your screen name is anglian, is your first name East and are you a part of those hoaxsters out of England? You seem so committed, perhaps you should be committed.
Oops, looks like Bawnwey Fwank has crawled into your evacuation route.
Yes. And, they hunt them in international waters.
Yes because Japan is so fond of legal systems and never strays ethically. Not.
So much for legal systems.
So a bribes justify piracy, I see.
That argument should make any honest greenie’s head explode. Too bad there are very, very few honest greenies.
In Japan they eat whales and love to kill them all over the place into extinction.
When the Peruvian navy finally stopped and seized the Onassis fleet, just as sanctions were to be applied the entire fleet was sold to Japan for $8.5 million. Onassis' factory ship, the Olympic Challenger, was renamed the Kyokuyo Maru II.
The Japanese trawler, Shunyo Maru, later became a combined catcher/factory whaling ship, MV Tonna, and was owned by Andrew M. Behr who also owned the infamous pirate whaling ship, Sierra. The Tonna is famous for its demise. In 1978 with full holds the Tonna landed another 50 ton Fin whale. As the whale was being winched aboard for processing the ship listed over, took on water and quickly sank. Behr and the Sierra were also linked to Japan's Taiyo Fisheries Co. through a Canadian subsidiary (Taiyo Canada Ltd.) and with whale product for Japanese markets. The Sierra was severely damaged after being rammed by activist Paul Watson aboard his ship, the Sea Shepherd. Taiyo and other Japanese fisheries have also been linked to pirate whaling through subsidiary companies in Taiwan, the Philippines, Spain, South Korea, Chile and Peru. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan#cite_note-jwa-history-7
"I didn't think of the embezzlement at first. I just couldn't stand the waste. A lot of meat was being thrown away because we kept catching whales even after we'd reached our daily quota. I decided I had to tell someone what was happening."
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