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News Humpback whales used as 'bargaining tool' by Japan
WDCS accuses the country of game playing
by Fran Maillion
21/12/2007:// As Japan denies any agreement to spare humpback whales from their Antarctic hunt, WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society has accused the country of 'game playing' and of using these iconic whales as a bargaining tool to gain international approval for their expanding whale hunts.
WDCS's Mark Simmonds said. "It seems that the Government of Japan is holding the world to ransom with the killing of these whales in order to gain support for their own whaling agenda. The Japanese whalers are well aware that the humpback whale is an iconic species, and they seem to have been using the lives of these animals in an attempt to negotiate with the international community."
Japan sparked international criticism when it added fifty humpback whales to its Antarctic hunt this season, the largest ever whale hunt conducted in the name of 'scientific research'. Recent reports suggested that Japan had made a deal with the USA to suspend their hunt of the 50 humpback whales, which the Japanese Foreign Ministry has just denied. WDCS stresses that regardless of any deal over the humpback whales, some 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales, an endangered species, will also face the whalers' harpoons in this hunt.
The addition of the humpback whales and the general expansion of the Antarctic hunt coincided with Japan's failure to gain support within the International Whaling Commission for a 'coastal' whaling quota in Japanese waters.
Simmonds continues "We cannot look favourably on the whale killers even if they do agree not to end the lives of 50 humpback whales. These whales’ lives should not be in the equation in the first place, and we must not forget that Japan will continue to kill cruelly almost 1,000 animals in their Antarctic hunt and a further 280 in their Pacific hunt. We call on the international community to shame Japan into ending all its cruel and unnecessary whaling activity."
It is believed that the addition of humpback whales to the Antarctic hunt is part of Japan's long-term negotiation strategy.
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