Sentences with phrase «of whale meat»

To reach that conclusion, the researchers examined 52 samples of whale meat purchased in Japanese markets to determine the genetic diversity of the population.

You work your butt off here — by the way, I'm giving you a bonus for the Japanese whaler account, good work, sales of whale meat in Tokyo are up six percent — and then you go home and stay up all night blogging with people who look like the Unabomber.

You might laugh at this proposal, but I recall a DNA fingerprinting study of samples of whale meat sold for sashimi in Asian fish markets — a few samples were actually horse meat!

Tests of whale meat for sale online in Japan last year revealed mercury levels as high as 47.5 times what is considered safe for human consumption.

We urge Iceland to cease international trade of whale meat and work with the international community to safeguard whale species,» said Commerce Secretary Gary Locke.

Korea reported a catch of 458 during the five years encompassing 1999 - 2003, but genetic testing of whale meat in Korean markets suggests that as many as 827 individual animals were taken through this loophole.

Animal rights activists were celebrating yesterday as a ship carrying 130 tonnes of whale meat finally returned to its home port of Reykjavik.

Cochran's family also received shipments of whale meat from kin living farther north, near Barrow.

The DNA survey of whale meat purchased in Japanese grocery stores reveals that the species has the most genetically diverse population of any whale, indicating the species historically had a population of between 500,000 and one million individuals.

Forty years later, locals on an atoll in the Gilbert Islands, part of the Republic of Kiribati in the west Pacific, gave a visiting marine biologist dried strips of whale meat left over from a recent festival.

West said their direct - action campaign is having a significant impact in both reducing the number of whales caught — he says the whalers took about half their target of 935 minke and fin whales last year — and increasing costs by reducing efficiency and cutting the amount of whale meat the fleet can sell.

Even so, the mercury content of whale meat is considerably lower than that of the hypertoxic Minamata fish.

They do this apparently more for nationalistic pride than any market, though a substantial majority of the public there is apparently in support of the consumption of whale meat, all of which is apparently illegally poached.

Before the conference began, Japan stated that it was open to substantial compromises, including reduced quotas, the placement of international observers onboard whaling vessels, the deployment of satellite tracking systems and the monitoring of whale meat marketing using DNA fingerprinting.

Investigations in the summer of 2015 revealed that a variety of whale meat products are sold in these stores.

EIA has joined with partner conservation organizations to call on SPAR International to stop all sales and distribution of whale meat.

I recall the label on those packages of whale meat: research whaling.

A U.S. study of whale meat sold in South Korea suggests the number of whales being sold for human consumption is putting minke whales further at risk.

In 2010, similar tests found that half of 10 samples of whale meat sold via Yahoo! Japan exceeded the safe levels for mercury contamination.

Ever since 1986, the international trade of whale meat has been banned between countries that signed that year's document produced by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they banned ivory).

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has posted Icelandic government records showing sales of whale meat, oil and meal included about 26 tons of whale meal bound for Denmark in 2009.

Opposing Japan's attempts to create a new category of coastal whaling and Greenland's proposal to expand aboriginal (subsistence) whaling, both of which would allow commercial sale of whale meat and similarly threaten to undermine the moratorium.

Latin American countries led opposition to the request, saying that Greenland's sale of whale meat to tourists was no different than ordinary, banned, commercial whaling.

A team of scientists, film - makers and environmental advocates say they collected samples of whale meat being sold in sushi restaurants in both the US and South Korea late last year.