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Australia can and should pull the trigger to stop the Japanese Whale Hunts

International legal experts agree that Australia can stop the Japanese “Scientific” whaling program if it went to court. Australia could take Japan to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, or the International Court of Justice.

The legal team found that Japan’s so called “scientific whale hunt” breaches a number of international conventions.

It’s about time someone stood up to Japan, and legally challenged their “Scientific” whale hunts. Japan has used the word “scientific” far too long to try and convince themselves and the world they are not needlessly slaughtering whales for financial gain, but rather for scientific purposes.

It’s time to support the Australian Government and finally put an end to Japan’s whaling charade.

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Alaskan Whale Hunt Called Off

Kudos to the native Alaskan whalers, who have voluntarily cancelled this year’s Beluga whale hunt.

This is the third time in nine years that the annual hunt has been cancelled due to declining numbers of Beluga whales in Cook Inlet.

Native subsistence harvests were thought to be the blame for diminishing numbers of the whale in earlier years. Even with strict hunting limits imposed by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the whales continued to decline in numbers.

Peter Merryman, President of the Village counsel of Tyonek said, “We understand what’s going on. We know the population is declining so we are trying our best to get it back up again. It”s our way to help them out.”

Now if only other whaling nations, like Japan for example, would take note of the actions by the Alaskan Native hunters, whale populations around the globe would have a chance to stave of extinction.

Are you listening Japan?

Sushi Eaters. Time to put your money where your mouth is

Sushi. I don’t like it. Tried it once, tried it twice, just didn’t sit well with me. But that’s not what this is about.

Hitting supermarket shelves this year in Canada and the US will be a product called “Polar Seas Frozen Sushi”, from True World Foods. True World Foods, the self proclaimed ‘Premier seafood and sushi distributor in the US’, has recently partnered with Japanese whale meat trader, Kyokuyo.

Kyokuyo is a multinational company which has been hunting whales since 1930. It sells millions of cans of Polar Seas brand canned whale meat throughout Japan.

Since the 1930s, Japanese hunters have killed more than half a million whales. Kyokuyo alone has profited from the death of over 130,000 whales over the last 70 years.

The International Whaling Commission in 1986, made it illegal to hunt whales commercially, but a loophole that allows whaling for ’scientific purposes” continues to be exploited by Japan. More than 508 whales have already been killed in Japan’s hunt this year.

Japan now hunts over 1200 whales each year. Illegally, against international law.

Now they want to sell their illegal bounty in North America, marketed to the sushi eaters.

Along with shark finning, used to make Shark Fin Soup, the only reason whales are hunted is because of public ignorance. The more people buy, the more they will need to slaughter to keep up with demand.

The answer is simple. Do not buy these products. It’s an illegal fishery!