{"id":527193,"date":"2010-04-14T08:06:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T12:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2010-04-14T08:06:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T12:06:44","slug":"japanese-industry-blames-conservation-group-for-small-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527193","title":{"rendered":"Japanese industry blames conservation group for small catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/apr\/13\/japan-whaling-catch-sea-shepherd\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/1\/6\/1262781576394\/anti-whaling-protest-vess-001.jpg\" width=\"344\" align=\"right\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/04\/13\/20\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Biological_diversity_in_Japan\">Japan&#8217;s<\/a> whaling industry is pointing to harassment by the  anti-whaling marine conservation group Sea Shepherd as the reason for  its small catch this year.<\/p>\n<p>The whaling fleet&#8217;s leading ship, the <em>Nisshin Maru<\/em>, returned  to Tokyo harbor yesterday from its five-month hunt in the Southern Ocean  with 507 whales &#8212; a little over half its target catch of 935,  according to the fisheries agency.<\/p>\n<p>That haul represented a drop of 173 whales since last year&#8217;s  five-month season. Whaling leader Shigetoshi Nishiwaki said he was  &#8220;furious&#8221; with Sea Shepherd for preventing the fleet from reaching its  target catch.<\/p>\n<p>The whalers said Sea Shepherd&#8217;s annual efforts to stop the hunt had  sabotaged them, causing them to lose 31 days of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The whalers and the conservation group engage in a marine-based  confrontation each year over the whalers&#8217; operations. This year the  whale wars led to the use of a water cannon and a sonic crowd control  device to keep the anti-whalers at bay, while Sea Shepherd members  responded by throwing rancid-butter bombs. The fight climaxed with the  sinking of Sea Shephard&#8217;s high-tech powerboat after a collision with the  <em>Shonan Maru 2<\/em> harpoon boat.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial whale slaughters are allowed under a provision for  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Whaling_for_scientific_research_purposes\">scientific research<\/a>,&#8221; according to a clause in the International  Whaling Commission&#8217;s 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling (Justin  McCurry, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/apr\/13\/japan-whaling-catch-sea-shepherd\" >London  <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>, April 13). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3286&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3286\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Japan&#8217;s whaling industry is pointing to harassment by the anti-whaling marine conservation group Sea Shepherd as the reason for its small catch this year. The whaling fleet&#8217;s leading ship, the Nisshin Maru, returned to Tokyo harbor yesterday from its five-month hunt in the Southern Ocean with 507 whales &#8212; a little over half its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}