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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..

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Whale meat is one of the most highly contaminated seafoods because whales are at the top of the food chain.

Make sure you leave time to take the ferry from Cape Jervis to Kangaroo Island, famed for its wine, wool, meat and honey; enjoy at least one glass of Shiraz in the McLaren Vale Wine region, and try your chances with spotting Southern Right whales throughout the winter, the first arrivals beginning mid-May, and learning more about them at the SA Whale Centre in Victor Harbour.

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!

When the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was negotiated more than 60 years ago, the main aim was to sustain whale stocks for their only economic value at the time — as a source of oil and meat.

Japan's whaling program has struggled financially in recent years, as more Japanese consumers turn up their noses at whale meat and as environmental activists chasing whaling boats make the hunts more difficult.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Humane Society International continues to pressure Japan to cease whaling through our efforts at the annual IWC meeting as well as via corporate campaigns, like the recently co-sponsored effort to end the sale of whale meat on Amazon.com's Japanese website.