Three activists 'prisoners' after slipping aboard Japanese ship

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44. you mean except for the fact that its consider legal research by most

Now i support some whale hunting, but even I will admit that they are exploiting the 'research' loophole to have a very very small fig leaf hiding the true purpose, that however does not change the fact that the IWC has accepted that claim(with some grumbling from its anti-whaling countries who i think would love to close the loophole)

Of course if the IWC where to return to its real purpose and not try to basically stop whaling then they wouldn't be forced to use the said loophole. Besides, I do not think the IWC has the power or authority to actually pass binding international law, its more like regulations that the member countries tends to abide by(considering the fact that if a country were to leave the IWC then the regulations wouldn't be binding to them any longer)