Japan Slaughters Dolphins
The dolphin slaughter business in Japan.
Stop the dolphin slaughter in Japan
Every year from October to March, fishermen kill over 20,000 small whales and dolphins.
Japan kills over 20,000 dolphins and small whales annually mist of which end up in the meat industry. These coastal killings profit mostly from selling the best specimens to aquariums worldwide, from $20,000 to $45,000 for good specimens for aquariums, swim with dolphins program and dolphin shows.
Hana and Helen the two dolphins that came almost 2 years ago to the Vancouver Aquarium, come from Taiji!
One dead dolphin sells for abour $600.00 US in the meat market.
Every day at the dolphin drive, 3 generations of dolphins and small whales get killed in the most brutal way.
Each year from October through March, in small towns across Japan, thousands of dolphins and small whales are confined and brutally killed with knives and other weapons. These slaughters take place in fishing towns including Taiji, Iki, Ito, Futo and Izu and the, Japanese fishermen drive complete families and pods of dolphins, porpoises and small whales into shallow bays and brutally kill them. The majority of these small cetaceans are sold as meat for supermarkets and restaurants.
Statement of a witness:
There were several very small babies in the pod. They still depended on their mothers' milk for survival and were too young to train. So the fishermen killed them, and the dolphin trainers did absolutely nothing to help them. The dolphins cried as the fishermen slashed them with hooks and knives and the lagoon filled with their blood. It takes a dolphin up to six minutes to die, a former fisherman from another Japanese fishing village has told us. "And they cry the entire time, with their eyes wide open," he said. The dolphins fought for their lives, even as their guts were ripped from their bellies and blood gushed out of their blowholes. But their screams had no effect on the trainers ...
Bloody waters
Dolphin killer at work
Send a letter, e-mail or fax to the Prime Minister of Japan, the Minister of Fisheries, your local embassy or consulate and other Japanese officials to let them know that this barbaric slaughter is unacceptable.
PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN
Mr. Junichiro Koizumi
1-6-1 Nagata-cho 1 Chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. 100-8968 JAPAN
Fax: +81.3.5511.8855
E-mail:www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment.html
MINISTER OF FISHERIES
Mr. Yoshinobu Shimamura,
1-2-1 Ksumigaseki 1 Chrome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. 100-8907 JAPAN
Tel:+81-3-5510-3303 (direct) or 3-3502-8111 Fax:
+81-3-3502-8220 or +81-3-3502-0794 E-mail: sinsei01densi@nm.maff.go.jp
The dolphin hunt in Taiji is conducted by
TAIJI FISHERY COOPERATIVE
3167-7 Taiji
Wakayama, 649-5171 Japan
Tel: +81.735.59.3517
Fax: +81 735 59 3018
Permission for the dolphin hunt is given by
THE GOVERNOR OF WAKAYAMA
Mr. Yoshiki Kimura
Prefectural Office of Wakayama
1-1 Komatsubaradouri, Wakayama-shi
Wakayama-ken, 640-8269 Japan
Tel: +81-73-441-2034
Fax:+81-73-423-9500
Public comment lines: +81-73-441-2028
Fax: +81-73-431-0462
E-mail: 0006001@pref.wayakama.lq.jp
Please, sign this petition online.
Contact your local media (tv, newspapers and radio).
In order to spread the news about what is happening in Japan, we need to get media coverage. Write letters to the editors of your local/national newspapers. Call TV and radio stations to ask them to cover this important news.
You can check in this website for an Embassy of Japan in your country to send them letters/petitions or to organize a protest.
If you live in the US, check for a Japanese consulate near you.
Check this informative website: www.SaveJapanDolphins.org
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