Marine conservationists claim Japanese fishermen are dumping dolphin corpses at sea
Source: The Guardian
Marine conservationists claim Japanese fishermen are dumping dolphin corpses at sea
Fishermen dumping small dolphins so they can fill quota with more profitable
specimens as annual Taiji dolphin hunt begins, says Sea Shepherd
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Thursday 22 October 2015 23.01 BST
Marine conservationists have claimed that fishermen in the Japanese town of Taiji are dumping the corpses of small dolphins out at sea so that they can fill their annual quota with larger, more profitable specimens.
The conservation organisation Sea Shepherd released images on Thursday of a juvenile Risso’s dolphin it claimed had washed ashore in Taiji after being thrown overboard by local fishermen, who began their annual dolphin hunt last month.
The group said it believed the dolphin had been among a pod of 18 to 20 Risso’s dolphins driven to the shore and killed earlier this week. It claimed the dolphin had been discarded so it would not be counted as part of the fishermen’s annual quota.
David Hance, a Sea Shepherd campaigner, claimed that fishermen have been loading dead juvenile dolphins on to boats and concealing them with tarpaulin, before taking them out to the open sea and dumping them.
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>> “We used to harpoon dolphins, but that was several decades ago. Now we sever the spinal cord
>> in a moment and there is not much blood.”
The slaughter still goes on but it is now "cleaner" and "less offensive" ... and they claim that it is
an improvement ...
>> “We will never stop,” Yoshifumi Kai, of the Taiji fisheries cooperative, told reporters last month.
Truly those people are scum of the worst kind.
