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THE London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today revealed that proposals to resume commercial whaling under the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for a 10-year period could cost European tax payers more than £5.6 million. A document posted to the IWC’s website last week outlined basic costs for setting up a Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Scheme (MCSS) [...]
THE fishing boats making their way into the port of Otsuchi , in northern Japan, seem an innocent enough sight, even picturesque – but in their wake is a sea stained red by the world’s single largest direct slaughter of cetaceans. Every year, approximately 15,000 Dall’s porpoises are killed, out of sight and largely out [...]
Support Calls for The Dall’s Porpoise Hunt to be Suspended. For the last quarter of a century, Japan’s Dall’s porpoise hunt has been the largest cetacean hunt in the world, with as many as 17,700 animals slaughtered each year.
A briefing to the International Whaling Commission on the impacts of pollution on cetaceans and humans who consume cetacean products
A report on Wal-Mart’s link to Japan’s hunting of whales, dolphins and porpoises
A report on the sale of polluted whale, dolphin and porpoise meat for human consumption in Japan