Japan’s Whalers Set Sail for Antarctica as Green Groups Protest

Nov. 19 , 2009

Japan’s whaling fleet set sail to hunt as many as 985 minke and fin whales in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, an annual expedition opposed by countries like New Zealand and Australia, environmental group Greenpeace said.

The fleet, including the 8,044 metric ton factory boat Nisshin Maru, departed from Innoshima Port in southwestern Japan today, Greenpeace said in an e-mailed statement....

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