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Japan to Catch Up to 60 Minke Whales in North Pacific

Environment  (tags: endangered, 60 minke whales, Japanese whalers, scientific research, dietry intake, population impact on fishery resources, TRY WHALE DIETRY INTAKE ON JAPANESE TABL )

Tony
- 222 days ago - pr-inside.com
TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese fisheries agency said Friday up to 60 minke whales in the north Pacific Ocean will be caught in the coming month for research. Five boats will be dispatched Monday off northern Japan for the research mission that will run to May
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Giovanni Amorone (83)
Sunday April 13, 2008, 7:28 am
Who will be there to protect them? Greenpeace? IFAW? Sea Shepherd?

Or should we simply follow the Boycott until they stop killing?

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/stop-the-killing-boycott-Japan
 

Joycey B. (528)
Sunday April 13, 2008, 9:09 am
Caught for research? Yea, right. Same old excuse with these murderers.
 

Michael M. (25)
Sunday April 13, 2008, 10:25 am
You may not be aware that Japan wiped out all large whales in their waters long past. They bought USSR whalers' catch after moratoriums were established on endangered whales. The USSR whalers were operating in secret. The gray whale that migrated down the western pacific was extinguished through this activity.
We DO see good news, in the blue whales hugging the protected waters of California and the Bowhead receiving protection in the far north.
By the way, are you aware that spear heads well over 100 years old have been found in Right or Bowhead whales? Some estimates are of life spans beyond 200 years, making them the longest-lived known species.
 

Claudia Catcher (36)
Sunday April 13, 2008, 12:46 pm
Research?They keep researching whales,what o bunch of BS
Thanks tony
 

Scott Shaubel (824)
Monday April 14, 2008, 2:34 pm

Research, so they can figure out how to make them extinct,

they been trying so hard to make them extinct, research will help

.. the japanese efforts, to kill all the whales.
 

Deborah N. (32)
Monday April 14, 2008, 3:41 pm
Why can't they just leave them alone & research them in there surroundings.. sounds better than what they are doing... IF someone don't stop these massacres of all these seals,whales & so on.. there won't be any left in the waters for us to watch ... do they think these whales & so on are there just for them to have... they belong to everyone & NOT EVERYONE wants them dead or taken for research.. bunch of killers & liers..
I hate that whale on there ship also.. gross as they are..
 

Past Member (0)
Monday April 14, 2008, 3:48 pm
What?
 

Past Member (0)
Monday April 14, 2008, 5:54 pm
Thank You Tony,,,,,,if its not one country its another one.....
 

Scott Shaubel (824)
Monday April 14, 2008, 6:39 pm

the whales have been around forever, just like us, and we were fine,.. till they started "researching" us.
 

Karen M. (193)
Tuesday April 15, 2008, 1:39 am
60 whales needed for research? What do they have to do 60 times on dead whales that's so important? Nothing, apparently, as they'll all be sold as meat and bones and the research results will continue to be ridiculous. Thank you, Tony, for posting.
 

mandy j. (22)
Tuesday April 15, 2008, 3:58 am
how sick
 

Tony Fields (316)
Tuesday April 15, 2008, 4:04 am
They are killing the messengers of the Ancient Ones ~ whalekind came to Mother Earth 50 million years before hominoids appeared ~ so have had that much more time to evolve a higher intelligence than humankind of today ~ they are here to assist humankind with consciousness to begin healing Mother Earth, instead of destroying her ~
 

Fil J. (24)
Tuesday April 15, 2008, 3:33 pm
Research?! But of course! Before we decide if it is good to eat we should research it. They must be persuaded to stop. It is cruel, but the idea is beyond their comprehension (check the cooking methods). They might understand ecological balance as it is logical, but I fear it will take "a world of coaxing".
 

Pauline F. (17)
Wednesday April 16, 2008, 6:38 pm
What will it take to get through to these killers that this is unacceptable. Visits to the President, petitions, Greenpeace's brave protests in the water are being ignored, the whole world is against them but still they do it and round up dolphins to kill as well. A barbaric race which will not change with world pressure.
 
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