Dolphin slaughter September 13, 2006
I have just been reading some very disturbing information about the resumption of dolphin capture and slaughter in Japan. I had not realised but it seems Japanese fishermen still kill some 20-thousand dolphins a year and most of us are innocently unaware of this atrocity.
Here is an extract from BlueVoice.org:
Fishermen at Futo have resumed dolphin hunts. Taiji fishermen kill hundreds of dolphins. BlueVoice.org has halted hunts in the past. They are currently in Japan now to end these brutal slaughters forever.
Beginning in October each year a small number of fishermen in villages such as Taiji, Japan begin to hunt dolphins. The hunt continues through the end of February for dolphins and continues through April for small whales.
More than twenty thousand dolphins are killed each year in Japan - a process sanctioned by the Japanese government. Dolphins are killed for meat and to provide dolphins for aquariums and swim-with programs. Fishermen drive the dolphins into a bay, separate the number contracted by dolphin buyers, and then butcher the rest in a manner brutal beyond description.
What drives the killings and training/export business is the explosion of demand for dolphins for swim-with programs and for dolphinaria around the world, particularly in Asian nations. When people swim with the always “smiling” dolphins or see them in shows jumping through burning hoops, they should know these dolphins are often survivors of the brutal drive fisheries in Japan in which dozens or hundreds of their pod mates have been killed. The increase in demand for live dolphins, captured and shipped to aquariums and swim-with programs, has created a huge incentive for fishermen to step-up the dolphin drives which result in so may brutal deaths.
Check out their video at: http://www.bluevoice.org
The dolphin killers are desperate to stop organisations like BlueVoice from videotaping their gruesome work. They know international outrage will end the slaughter.
Oraganisation like BlueVoice need our support.
- Posted in : The planet, scuba diving, surfing
- Author : Al
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