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Sep 17, 2008

SAVE THE WHALES HARPOON THE WHALERS!!!

Press Release: 13 April 2006

ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS CALL ON WORLD’S LARGEST SEAFOOD COMPANY TO END JAPAN’S WHALING
As Japan’s whaling fleet returned home yesterday from its Antarctic hunt with the largest kill of whales in over 20 years, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) exposes the international seafood giant Maruha’s involvement in Japan’s whaling and calls on it to use it’s influence to help stop the killing of the world’s whales.
     
    TAFCO sei whale yamatoni on sale in Endo Shoten, Ayukawa, Japan. Copyright Claire Bass, EIA, Feb 2006.
   
In 1999, in response to international pressure against those profiting from ‘scientific’ whaling, the Maruha Corporation sold its 31% share in Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd., the company that carries out the whaling under contract to the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR). However, the sale was merely a smokescreen as Maruha sold most of the shares to Taiyo A&F Co Ltd., a company Maruha had been associated with since 1965, which is now a wholly owned subsidiary.

As well as owning part of the whaling company, Taiyo A&F purchases, processes and sells whalemeat from the ‘scientific’ catch in retail outlets across Japan, and Taiyo’s President is a Director on the Board of Kyodo Senpaku. Thus Maruha’s supposed exit from whaling has not taken place.

Less than one month ago Kyodo Senpaku announced that “in view of the scientific and public-interest nature” of its activities, its present shareholders, including Taiyo, would be transferring all shares to the ICR and other public interest companies. The transfer will include the entire whaling fleet, enabling the new shareholders to continue ‘lethal research’ on whales in the protected waters of the Southern Ocean Sanctuary. Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling has been repeatedly criticised by International Whaling Commission (IWC), the only international organisation with a mandate to manage and conserve whale populations.

Clare Perry, EIA’s Cetacean Campaign Manager, said:   “Maruha is the world’s largest seafood company with a global constituency that does not support whaling. Right now it has a strong position of influence over Japan’s whaling and it should use this influence to make amends for its contribution to the destruction of the world’s whale populations. We are calling on Maruha and Taiyo to immediately stop all sales of whalemeat, and to stipulate in the share transfer that Kyodo Senpaku’s fleet will only be used for non-lethal research.”

Maruha’s involvement in Japan’s whaling spans 70 years. Under its previous name of Taiyo Fishery Company, Maruha’s 40 year Antarctic and North Pacific whaling campaigns claimed the lives of over 165,000 great whales, including over 8,000 blue whales and 60,000 fin whales. Also, when whale populations crashed in the 1970s and official catch quotas were reduced, Taiyo Fishery Company was implicated in large scale international pirate whaling that deliberately targeted protected species.

Clare Perry said: 
 “The donation of their shares to
public-interest’" companies could serve to put whaling even more under the control of the Japanese government. But if Maruha, Taiyo and the other shareholders listen to their global constituency and act to end Japan’s whaling, they will positively influence whale conservation for decades to come.”

NOTES:

Japan’s ‘scientific’ whaling fleet returned on the 13th April 2006 with 853 minke whales and 10 fin whales.
On the 24th March 2006, Kyodo Senpaku announced that its present shareholders, Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd (Nissui), Kyokuyo Co Ltd., Taiyo A&F Co. Ltd (TAFCO) and Delmar Co Ltd., would be transferring their shares to the ICR and other public interest companies. According to reports, they are donating their shares, not selling them.
In November 2000, a Maruha public relations officer told an Asahi Shimbun journalist: “Even if commercial whaling were to resume, we have no current plans to be involved in whaling, nor do we (any longer) have the know-how .''.
Taiyo A&F Co Ltd. was established in 1950 as a coastal whaling company, and killed 16,000 sperm whales alone off the coast of Japan between 1951 and 1987.
Maruha’s first whaling expedition set sail on the 3rd November 1936.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is the world’s leading organisation dedicated to investigating and exposing environmental crime.

THIS SHITE NEEDS TO END IT"S GONE ON FAR TOO LONG !!!    THE EIA AND IWC, OUR COAST GAURD< NOBODY BUT SEA SHEPHERD IS DOING THEIR JOBS OF MAKING SURE THESE BEAUTIFUL CREATURES ARE PROTECTECTED FROM THESE SICK BASTARDS!!!        
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