Sentences with phrase «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.

The Norwegian Government and private entities have created several marketing campaigns in an effort to improve domestic whale meat sales to a less - than - enthusiastic public.

And yet, people evidently love them some endangered whale meat.

The market for whale meat in Iceland is limited, and after the earthquake / tsunami disaster in Japan, exports to there have dropped drastically.

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.

I lived in Japan for 5 years, 1991 - 1996, and I must confess that I ate whale meat once in a Tokyo restaurant.

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!

The market for products derived from whale meat simply does not exist and provide an absurdly large proportion will not change that.

But the most startling development is perhaps the fact that this evidence leads investigators to the unfortunate conclusion that the illegal whale meat trade is indeed still thriving.The BBC has the story:

There is currently a global moratorium on commercial whaling, and a ban on international trade in fin whale meat.

The Eskimo tribes in the arctic subsist on whale meat and blubber (a diet of 75 % plus saturated fat) and have very low or no rate of heart disease.

While the researchers in the current study can't pinpoint exposure, people in the Faroe Islands eat a lot of seafood, such as whale meat and blubber — which act like storage containers for these persistent chemicals.

Louis Psihoyos, the former National Geographic photographer who won an Oscar on Sunday for «The Cove,» his first documentary film, sat down for a conversation with me at the Asia Society on Tuesday on various aspects of the ongoing slaughter of dolphins in Japan and his team's work exposing the serving of Sei whale meat at The Hump, a sushi restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif..

Now, after running DNA tests on a gift of dried whale meat given to a scientist visiting islands in the Pacific, researchers have confirmed that there's a whole new species of beaked whale living in our oceans — and there may be others out there.

I am a middle aged Japanese and I had whale meat once when I was about 8 years old as a sort of a «delicacy.»

One definition of chutzpah: The day after a team of activist filmmakers garner an Academy Award for «The Cove,» the documentary showing in wrenching detail the slaughter of hundreds of dolphins in a Japanese town, they disclose a sting operation they conducted with law enforcement officials at one of the hottest sushi bars in Santa Monica, Calif. — in which they say they confirmed that Sei whale meat was on the menu.

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

Even though whale meat is unpopular in Japan, government officials and many Japanese have rallied around what the country insists is a scientific research program (with a meat - selling sideline), criticizing critics.

The Japanese Government encourages the public to eat whale meat even though it is increasingly unpopular because it has to «save face» as it does not want to give up its right to hunt whales which would be seen as conceding defeat.

Conservationists have issued an appeal for tourists not to eat whale meat when they visit Iceland.

The scientists and advocates say that Japan should be forced to set up a reliable monitoring system to ensure that whale meat doesn't make it to the black market.

The problem has even been found with whale meat being sold to customers in an LA sushi restaurant.

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

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.

But today in a statement to the islanders, chief medical officers Pál Weihe and Høgni Debes Joensen announced that pilot whale meat and blubber contains too much mercury, PCBs and DDT derivatives to be safe for human consumption.

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.

Whale meat dishes are widely available at specialty restaurants, in supermarkets, and online, and some Japanese consider it a delicacy.

For the foreseeable future, the battle over whales will continue to play out with unregulated hunts, dangerous zodiac chases, and freezers full of aging whale meat.

«The reason whale meat is so dark is that it's filled with myoglobin that is capable of holding oxygen.

Racing Extinction starts off with similar stealth tactics used in its predecessor, going undercover with hidden cameras to expose a restaurant illegally serving whale meat.

I'd like to add that the whalers are from highly industrialized countries whose populations have nothing to do with the «hunt» but are buying whale meat like any other fungible supermarket product.

Their bloody faces smile as they chew on rancid whale meat.

The Northern Sea Route along that coast has always been a busy passageway for coastal shipping — and is slowly becoming more of a global route for products moving between Europe and Asia (including Icelandic whale meat; more on that later today).

In a 2009 interview with local news media, in a response to a question about the profitability of whaling, the owner of Iceland's fin whaling company indicated that while whale meat is the most valuable product, processed whale products such as melted fat and pulverized whale bone could be turned into «meat meal and then mixed with other meal...» (link is in Icelandic).

Caption: [A Japanese female vendor serves a «whale meat curry» lunch box (bento) to customers at a vending van in Tokyo the other day.

For the Japanese business - insiders, the whale & dolphin hunting expeditions were never about research or filling a public hunger for fatty whale meat.

Consuming whale meat can be a health hazard for humans, since environmental contaminants have been found in the blubber of some species at levels far in excess of what is considered safe.

Fishermen are not now allowed to sell gray whale meat, and are asked to report entanglements so that authorities can release the whales.

Greenpeace Australia - Pacific Chief Executive Steve Shallhorn said the watchdog wanted to oppose whaling at home in Japan, while two of its activists are to face a Japanese court next year on charges of stealing whale meat.

They are taking a cue from the Fur is Green and calling whale meat environmentally friendly.

The announcement has some animal protection groups scratching their heads, namely because the demand for whale meat in Norway has plummeted in recent years, so much so, in fact, that it is less expensive than beef.

They even make luxury dog food from whale meat...

Last week, Sydney Holt of the International Fund for Animal Welfare said in Mexico that a South Korean ship was arrested earlier this month trying to land illegal whale meat at the Japanese port of Nagasaki.

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

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued the following statement on Iceland's decision to resume international trade in fin whale meat, and its escalation of commercial whaling outside of the control of the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

Antiwhaling critics say that Japanese whale research is a fig leaf for commercial hunting, as whale meat can be sold to cover research costs.

They don't eat whale meat, they don't regard the right to do so as inalienable, and they are beginning to be heard.

A gift of dried whale meat — and some clever genetic sleuthing across almost 16,000 kilometers of equatorial waters — has helped scientists identify a long - forgotten animal as a new species of beaked whale.