Daily Grist: , Japan halts humpback hunt

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At 01:47 PM 12/21/07, you wrote:

 

>TODAY'S NEWS

>

>Doing the Humpty Dance

>Japan says it won't hunt humpback whales, at least for now

>

>Under pressure from, well, most of the world to stop targeting humpback

>whales, Japan has announced it will hold off on its hunt for the imperiled

>humpback -- at least for now. " Japan has decided not to catch humpback

>whales for one year or two, but there will be no change in our stance on

>research whaling, " said spokesguy Nobutaka Machimura. The decision was in

>large part a compromise with the head of the International Whaling

>Commission who is attempting to calm debate at the IWC and focus on

>managing whaling instead of acting to largely discourage or ban it. Japan

>was also under heavy pressure from European countries, the United States,

>and Australia, among others, to curtail the planned humpback hunt.

>Australia had recently dispatched a ship to tail the whalers and has been

>conducting flyovers of the whaling fleet to collect evidence of wrongdoing

>to present to an international court. Japan still intends to hunt two

>other whale species this season, aiming to land over 900 of them in what

>could be the country's largest hunt.

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>sources: Associated Press, The Guardian, Reuters, Bloomberg

>see also, in Grist: Japanese, Norwegians, and Icelanders spout off in

>favor of whaling

 

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