Sentences with phrase «minke whales killed»

Yahoo! Japan also sells hundreds of whale products including internationally protected species such as fin whales illegally killed in Iceland, minke whales killed in the Antarctic whale sanctuary as well as Bryde's, sei and sperm whales killed in the Northwest Pacific.

Food products from the hunts of protected minke whales killed in Norwegian waters are being sold in a number of SPAR Norway outlets and other NorgesGruppen stores.

Between 2008 and 2009, the number of minke whales killed by Japan in Antarctica jumped from 551 to 679, while Iceland raised its quota from 40 to 200.

Not exact matches

Conservationists have condemned Norway's decision to increase the number of minke whales it can kill by 45 per cent, describing the move as unjustified and «political posturing».

Less than 2 years after the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands ruled that Japan must stop killing whales, Japan has announced that it will relaunch its program to hunt minke whales in the Antarctic, BBC reports.

Japanese whalers are now in the Southern Ocean, targeting 333 minke whales for the research program; it calls for killing 333 minke whales annually for the next 12 years.

Since 1987, Japan has killed 10,712 minke whales for science.

Under the whaling convention, governments are free to set their own scientific catch quotas — even in a sanctuary — so Japan can be expected to kill up to 440 minke whales next season.

Friedlaender says his research casts doubt on Japan's scientific whaling program, which has purported to study minke feeding biology and has killed between 240 and 860 of the animals every year since 1988.

The 100 - page draft plan released today addresses the court's findings one by one and explains why collecting accurate data on the ages of minke whales requires killing them.

Each year Japan kills about 400 minke whales, as well as a smaller number of Bryde's whales, sei whales and sperm whales, in the name of research.

Personally I am against commercial whaling but if you want an impartial view I think the taking of whales should not be allowed under the scientific research provision; instead the ability to take for commercial purposes certain whale species that are doing ok (e.g., minke) should be rediscussed within the IWC (again I am not in favor of this but it would better then killing for scientific research whale species that are endangered [eg, fin, sei whales].

But those thousand minke and fin whales you are blithely killing for no good reason are another step towards the end of the Age of Large Mammals.

The quota would allow the killing of 150 fin whales and more than 100 minke whales each year for five seasons.

Amid the shouting over tactics, there has been little progress on a larger issue: When whale species, like the minke, are no longer rare, can they be both admired and eaten — as North Americans do with bison — or is it simply wrong to kill whales at all?

This year it plans to kill 700 whales: 440 minke whales in Antarctic waters and 260 in the North Pacific — 10 sperm whales, 50 Bryde's whales, 150 minke and 50 sei whales, a species classified as endangered by the World Conservation Union.

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According to a recent report, Icelandic whalers have killed eight whales thus far, with 92 more to go to fulfill their self - allocated quota of 100 minkes.

The goal was for 50 humpback and 50 fins whales, but the fleet caught no humpback whales and one fin whale; of the 935 targeted Minke whales, 506 were killed.

Japan killed 251 minke whales during the last Antarctic hunt, according to government figures released last week, while last year's operation in the Pacific netted 58 minke whales in coastal waters and 132 mammals - including minke, sei and sperm whales - offshore.

So far this year, Iceland has killed seven minke whales out of a quota of 30 and seven fin whales out of a quota of nine.

One of the justifications the Japanese whaling industry gives for violating the international ban on whaling is that killing minke whales will help larger baleen whales recover.

Although the agency stated that the percentage of pregnant females showed «the robustness of Antarctic minke whale reproduction,» it is impossible to celebrate the killing of these animals, especially while they are carrying young.