Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan

Sea Shepherd News

10/20/2006

On October 11th, Ito City Fishing Cooperative announced that they will continue their annual “drive” hunt of dolphins. They join Taiji, and other small villages along the coast of Japan, in a bloodbath that results in the death of over 20,000 dolphins and small whales annually from October through April each year.

Sanctioned by the government of Japan, which gives a quota of how many animals can be slaughtered during the hunt, these intelligent mammals are corralled into bays, where most of them suffer a long and painful death by spears, hooks, and drowning. Then, often sold under the guise of whale meat, the highly toxic flesh of these animals is marketed to the Japanese public in stores and restaurants – poisoning their own citizens....

Source: Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan
Author: Sea Shepherd

Link: Activists Protest in Front of the Japanese Consulate in Santiago
Link: Slaughter Season opens...
Link: Trixie Concepcion, coordinator of the nongovernmental organization Earth Island Institute (EII) in UP Village, Diliman: The appalling sight of dolphins being butchered off the coasts of Japan has led to a decade-long crusade for animal rights


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