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Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?

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Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
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Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 12:36 am (This post was last modified: April 10, 2014 at 12:40 am by Aractus.)
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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 11:30 am
When you can get bluefin tuna to jump through a hoop at Sea World, they'll be better taken care of too. People are more emotional than rational.
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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 11:41 am (This post was last modified: April 10, 2014 at 11:45 am by Autumnlicious.)
Because:

A) their use of the scientific whaling provision has been found to be fraudulent

B) a significant body of whale meat claimed for human consumption is used as dog treats, further damaging credibility of the guise of "preserving human cultural traditions"

C) they don't always catch minke whales but other endangered species of whale

Japan is a signatory of the IWC agreements that gives a small but wide spanning set of conditions to do hunting under. They chose to abuse one of those conditions.

How is this hard to grasp? The letter of the law is being enforced.

I wouldn't mind better environmental protections that are more comprehensive.
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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 12:14 pm
There are campaigns to save the Bluefin Tuna. Here's one of them.

Legal Petition Seeks Ban on Pacific Bluefin Tuna Fishing
by Center for Biological Diversity
Wednesday Apr 9th, 2014 12:06 PM
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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 1:02 pm
I would ban the Japan drift net fleets as well but I suppose people have to pick their fights



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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 1:35 pm
(April 10, 2014 at 11:30 am)alpha male Wrote: When you can get bluefin tuna to jump through a hoop at Sea World, they'll be better taken care of too. People are more emotional than rational.

I’d set sustainable quotas on Australians international waters too, but people would get emotional about that…
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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 2:12 pm
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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 2:19 pm
(April 10, 2014 at 12:36 am)Aractus Wrote: Recently Japan has been banned from their annual Antarctic whaling catch - and I want to know: why? Can anyone give me a good reason to ban Japan from whaling

Yes. Because one should not be allowed to flaunt even bad laws.
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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 2:22 pm
(April 10, 2014 at 12:36 am)Aractus Wrote: Put the environment FIRST!

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RE: Why has Japan been banned from Antarctic Whaling?
April 10, 2014 at 2:24 pm
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