Sentence examples for illegal whaling from inspiring English sources
Does the market for whale meat in Japan encourage illegal whaling and trading of whale products?
"We have reason to believe from a reliable source that, once in Costa Rica, the Japanese government may have sought extradition of Captain Watson to Japan to answer charges related to obstructing their illegal whaling activities in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary," Hartland said.
They would have to agree to other conditions, such as the presence of observers on ships, DNA registers of slaughtered whales and market sampling to detect illegal whaling.
Blue whale hunting was banned in 1966 by the International Whaling Commission, and illegal whaling by the Soviet Union finally halted in the 1970s, by which time 330,000 blue whales had been caught in the Antarctic, 33,000 in the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, 8,200 in the North Pacific, and 7,000 in the North Atlantic.
"Once again, the Australian government must step up and challenge the Japanese government's illegal whaling.
A Labor Party minister implied that his party, if elected, would order the Australian Navy into the Southern Ocean to monitor "illegal" whaling.
The Japan Fisheries Agency, which also promotes (poorly) the domestic eating of whale and dolphin meat, the illegal "scientific" whaling in Antarctica and the North Pacific, and imports of whale meat from Iceland and Norway, sets quotas that clearly do not do anything to protect the local populations of dolphins and whales.
Anti-whaling activist group Sea Shepherd said: "We've been saying for 10 years that this is an illegal whale hunt and the court has proven that case".
The hunt is partly paid for by the sale of meat to high-end restaurants such as this one, which is why opponents brand it as illegal commercial whaling in disguise.To the surprise of Japan's small band of whale-meat lovers, the court agreed.
The Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker (R) colliding with the illegal Japanese whaling fleet fuel tanker the San Laurel in 2013.
In the Antarctic, best estimates show an increase of 7.3% per year since the end of illegal Soviet whaling, but numbers remain at under 1% of their original levels.
