Sunday April 26, 2009, 6:34 am
The Yakusa controlled Japanese whaling industry have unleashed their mad dog killers into the waters off their own Northeastern coast to viciously slaughter 60 Piked whales.


The proposed slaughter will be illegal and the killing is not endorsed or sanctioned by the International Whaling Commission.


Once again Japan is justifying the slaughter under the absurd excuse of “research.”


The whalers are trying to compensate for losses caused by Sea Shepherd interventions in the Southern Ocean in December 2008 and January and February 2009.


The Japanese Fisheries Agency reported to the media that the environmentalist group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society made it impossible for the whaling vessels to operate on 16 days of the 100-day whale hunt.

The six ships caught 679 minke and one fin whale on the mission, the agency said. That was well below its planned haul of between 765 and 935 of the giant mammals.

The whalers need to kill at least 765 whales to break even. As a result they suffered losses of tens of millions of dollars.


The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin and her crew chased and shut down the whaling operations for more than five weeks Japan claims 16 days but that would mean that they would have fallen only 128 whales short of their set quota based on an average kill of 8 whales per day. The whalers failed to reach their set quota by 305 which means that Sea Shepherd prevented whaling activities for 38 days which validates the Sea Shepherd claim that whaling was shut down for five and a half weeks – not 16 days as Japan claims.


Four whaling ships and one designated “research”vessel will set sail soon from Ayukawa port in northern Miyagi prefecture and hunt whales within 80 kilometres (50 miles) off the coast until late May, the official said.

Japan wants to launch the new whaling mission ahead of the International Whaling Commission's annual general meeting in June in Madeira, Portugal. The IWC will not have an opportunity to censure these illegal whaling activities until after the whales are killed. ....Japan.... is gamboling that the member nations will do little more than make a noisy fuss about the violations of IWC regulations. The Japanese have learned that the IWC is just a paper shark, all talk and no action.

Sunday April 26, 2009, 7:46 am
Da__ them. Noted with anger, sadness, and frustration.

Sunday April 26, 2009, 8:08 am
Oh God, not again......

Sunday April 26, 2009, 9:17 am
When are they going to stop this?????? Research my ####.

Sunday April 26, 2009, 9:26 am
You know, of course, that had there been no massive whale hunt, it would have been superfluous to have a seal hunt. &%*&/!!!!

Sunday April 26, 2009, 10:51 am
Here we go again, something Positive is going to happen if this hunt so called research trolls the ocean for Whales this time..the IWC just may open be a lot more than all talk no show this time. Japan is in for a big surprise in hunting of the Whales.

Sunday April 26, 2009, 11:39 am
This barbaric pirating or sea life has to end!

Sunday April 26, 2009, 1:04 pm
OK, how do we protest to the Japanese? I'm fairly new here and not sure how to set up a Petition, or how to get it to the people who matter - but I know that People Power WORKS - so lets DO SOMETHING about it!

Sunday April 26, 2009, 1:30 pm
Someone make it stop! The senseless killin stop somewhere.Like Cathy W, I am fairly new to this internet stuff, how do we protest the Japanese. Who do we write, call, fax, email, snailmail????

Sunday April 26, 2009, 1:49 pm
Perhaps if the hunters were the ones being hunted! Hmmmmmmm? I think they would not like it! Let's turn the tables on these barbaric fools and turn the seas red with THEIR blood!

Sunday April 26, 2009, 2:20 pm
Is Japan still a member of The international Whaling Commission?

Sunday April 26, 2009, 2:35 pm

Let´s boycott Japan. If we are serious about saving the whales, that's what we need to do. No cameras , no cars, no computers from Japan.

Sunday April 26, 2009, 2:59 pm
Stop slaughtering whales. Do we really need more wars over this.

Sunday April 26, 2009, 3:46 pm
OMG, not again! Another whale war:((((
Tx Claudia

Sunday April 26, 2009, 5:12 pm
The only way to stop the Japanese is by economic sanctions. Hit them in the only place they feel anything - the hip pocket. Unfortunately, most governments, including Australia, are too busy pandering to the Japanese and focus on economic issues to the detriment of our environment and wildlife.

I am starting to believe those Twilight Zone shows where the Devil bargains with a human for his or her soul. You cannot possible possess a soul if you can kill whales or any other innocent animal.

Thank you, Claudia. You are always so vigilant with all the news - the good as well as the bad. Keep up the great work.

Sunday April 26, 2009, 5:40 pm
Yes,they are still a member of the IWC commitee

Sunday April 26, 2009, 6:26 pm
'suckaruckafrucka...' thank you Claudia~~why shoot the messanger? Namaste!

Sunday April 26, 2009, 6:37 pm
I am still (after so many years) confused about how the murder of hundreds of whales is somehow connected to scientific research...what are they researching? are they trying to find out how many whales actually have internal organs? Maybe how many harpoons it takes to kill one whale, or better yet, how long it takes one whale to die after X harpoons are fired into their helpless bodies. I can't justify the killing of anything for scientific research, but why do they have to do it every year? why do they need so many? To me this sounds really horrible, and not scientific at all, but maybe the way they explain it to the people who allow this to go on year after year, makes it sound like the thing to do???? I hope who ever is benefitting from the horrible deaths of these majestic animals chokes on every last bite of the murdered flesh I know they are selling for profit. My ultimate dream is to be on the deck of the Steve Irwin, stopping these monsters from commiting any more murders!!!

Monday April 27, 2009, 1:15 am
NO ONE BELIEVES THAT RESEARCH STORY

Monday April 27, 2009, 2:04 pm
Why is this happening again? Thanks Claudia

Monday April 27, 2009, 2:42 pm
Again & again & again...This is a plague...###

Wednesday April 29, 2009, 8:01 am
This is not needed! SO Stop Killing them. There beauty is Magnificent!

Sunday May 3, 2009, 7:08 pm
No one wants to eat whale meat, thats why I boycott Japaneese and Chineese restaurants! Theres no research going on here, just stupidity on their part!

Monday May 4, 2009, 3:08 pm
I too no longer enter into Japanese or Chinese restaurants the thought of it makes me want to vomit.Do cell phones come from Japan or is it China? Ugh