Japanese whalers plan new Antarctic hunt [View all]

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Andrew Darby

Japan's whalers expect to return to the Antarctic, despite losing an International Court of Justice case brought against them by Australia banning their current hunt.

Tokyo's Institute of Cetacean Research wants to go back to the Southern Ocean for a continuing "research program" after missing next summer, a court document filed in the United States says.

The new program would comply with the ICJ decision, according to a filing made for the institute to a United States District Court in a case against the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Sea Shepherd founder, Paul Watson, said: "They're going to do lethal whaling. They need the meat to send back to pay for it."


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/japanese-whalers-plan-new-antarctic-hunt-20140412-36jnf.html#ixzz2yg0yUoNC

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/japanese-whalers-plan-new-antarctic-hunt-20140412-36jnf.html

---

A confrontation between Japanese whalers and Sea Shepherd activists. Photo: Simon Ager/Sea Shepherd Australia

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/japanese-whalers-plan-new-antarctic-hunt-20140412-36jnf.html#ixzz2yg19xesO