NEW OF JAPAN'S ICR, THE WHALING INDUSTRY, & AUSTRALIA

Disclaimer:

All articles below are accessible to anyone on the internet.

We have included information we could find pertaining to the illegal whale hunting
that continues.
That includes articles from the point of view of pro whale hunting advocates.

It's news, and we won't present one side only.
If we did, then we cannot all be well informed.






Japan whaling haul at 'record low'
From: AAP April 05, 2013 5:48PM
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/japan-whaling-haul-at-record-low/story-fn3dxix6-1226613440007


Campaigns on Multiple Fronts Against Whale Hunting
By KATE GALBRAITH
Published: April 3, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/business/energy-environment/04iht-green04.html?pagewanted=all&buffer_share=0092c&utm_source=buffer&_r=0

Japan whale 'research' a flashpoint in global dispute 
April 3, 2013
by Peter Brieger And Hiroshi Hiyama
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-japan-whale-flashpoint-global-dispute.html


Japan's whaling industry heavily subsidized by Japanese Government

February 2013
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/japan-whaling-cost.html#cr
via LK

Antigua To Support Japanese Whaling Again
Started by AnimuX , Jun 19 2012 01:22 PM via IWPO
http://www.internationalwhaleprotection.org/forum/index.php?/topic/583-antigua-to-support-japanese-whaling-again/

Australia condemns Japan for whale hunt
Environment Minister threatens Japan with action unless it stops "scientific" whaling program me.
December 13, 2012
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/12/201212305220343904.html

Annual Catch-Quotas (2012-2013)
The Japan Fisheries Agency (JFA) established annual catch quotas in 1993, defining the number and species of the dolphin that can be hunted. Unfortunately, in setting these quotas, the advice of marine biologists was ignored; and these quotas have not changed in more than 10 years.
http://en.elsaenc.net/report/annualcatchquotas2012-13/
via CetaBase

Antarctic Treaty Seemingly Not for Whales’ Sake
By Thom Woodroofe
March 14, 2013
via BB

WHALE SCIENCE 
08,06,2006
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1657789.htm
via BB

Viewing cable 08CANBERRA540, 
AUSTRALIA SEEKS TO PUT RELATIONS WITH JAPAN BACK
via WikiLeaks
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2008/05/08CANBERRA540.html
via BB

Anti-Whaling Activists Hit a Nerve in Japan
March 16, 2013
by Keiko Tanaka
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/03/16/anti-whaling-activists-hit-a-nerve-in-japan/
via FM

Taiji and 3 years on. Have we made any progress?
by Martyn Stewart
naturesound.org
http://naturesound.org/?p=767

Two years on, scars of Fukushima are deep
March 11, 2013
by Christopher Hobson
¥2.45 trillion of ¥9.2 trillion budgeted siphoned off to unrelated projects, such as supporting the whaling industry
via BB

Japan disaster donations will never be used to fund whaling research

The Guardian, Tuesday 13 December 2011 16.00 EST

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/13/japan-disaster-funds-whaling-research


Institute of Cetacean Research
http://www.icrwhale.org/eng-index.html
Institute of Cetacean Research
JWC Conference Notations
http://www.icrwhale.org/04-A.html