How Japan Gets Away With Killing Whales

Published on October 16, 2016
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Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Whaling for commercial purposes was banned in 1986, but Japan still kills hundreds of whales every year. How do they get away with it?

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Did We Save the Whales?: Overfishing Threatens Whales
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/01/10/did-we-save-the-whales-19/overfishing-threatens-whales
“The whaling industry has changed beyond recognition since 1970, when 39,000 whales a year were being killed. In 2012, the worldwide total was 1,000. But far more whales are dying every year because of human activities, and the problems that caused whale populations to plummet worldwide are now affecting fish.”

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160325-Japan-whaling-minke-whales-Antarctica/
“Japan has killed 333 minke whales-including more than 200 pregnant females-as part of this year’s Antarctic whale hunt, according to the country’s Institute for Cetacean Research.”

What a Dead Blue Whale Can Teach Us About Life in the Ocean, and About Ourselves
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-dead-blue-whale-can-teach-us-about-life-ocean-and-about-ourselves-180957319/?no-ist
“The behemoth corpse stranded here the previous Monday, November 2. As far as Mate knows, it’s the first recorded case of a blue whale washing up on the Oregon coast. The creatures are rare; perhaps 2,500 ply the eastern north Pacific, making up between 10 and 25 percent of the global population.”
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