Posts Tagged ‘Antarctic minke whale’
Japanese hunting vessels set off to kill more whales
Reports in Japanese media indicate that the Japanese whaling fleet has left today for Antarctica. The fleet sailed from Shimonoseki Port, Yamaguchi Prefecture in order to kill up to 333 Antarctic minke whales by next March for ongoing ‘research’. The fleet consists of the Yushin Maru (724 tons) and The 3rd Yushin Maru (742 tons).…
Read MoreJapan’s whalers get into the ’snake oil’ business
Every year we are bombarded with advertising campaigns for things such as washing powder that claim that their product is ‘brand new’. We all have suspicions that in reality these ‘new products’ are in fact, simply repackaged versions of the same product (with maybe a new variation on an ingredient) we used last year and…
Read MoreThat‘s just “quackers” …
Back in the 1960’s submarines detected a bizarre “quacking” sound in the southern ocean and have been perplexed as to its origins ever since. The noise – nicknamed the “bio-duck” – was only heard during winter and spring months and was attributed to everything from ships to fish, but no-one really knew what was making…
Read MoreJapanese fleet sets sale for Antarctic whaling
AFP reports that two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance vessel left Saturday for the annual hunt in the Antarctic Sea quoting Kyodo News. The three ships departed from the western port of Shimonoseki to join other ships to hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March, the news…
Read MoreAre Japanese whalers hunting whales from Australia?
Andrew Darby, author and friend of the whales, reports that ‘Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the subantarctic for the first time’. There has been concern for some time that Japan has been hunting endangered minke whales in the North Pacific, but now it appears that minke…
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