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- Is It Hump Day Already?
  Posted by Jeff from Grist
  Japan's oft-criticized "scientific" whaling fleet will be extra busy this season as it aims to land up to 1,035 whales in what could be the country's largest whale hunt in modern times. Included in the toll: up to 50 humpback whales, the first time they've been targeted in some 40 years.
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- Anti - Whaler Nations Give Japan a Warning
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  'The Japanese whaling program next year envisages killing humpback whales. Humpbacks are one of the most iconic whale species. I know this program is going to generate enormous hostility from round the world,'' he said. New Zealand would voice its opposition to the program with the Japanese at the IWC's next annual meeting, in Alaska in May, he told New Zealand's National Radio.
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- Japan's Blue Whale and Minke Whale Hunt Ends
  Posted by Jeff from The Independent
  The Japanese say they take only Minke Whales but Blue have been taken too: The country admitted yesterday that this year's hunt - due to kill 945 whales by mid-March - will probably have to be abandoned as a result of a fire that has crippled its fleet's mother ship, the Nisshin Maru, and raised fears of an oil spill into the area's pristine waters
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- Science/Nature _ Iceland begins commercial whaling
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  The fisheries ministry said hunting could begin as early as next week, and suggested the meat may be exported, which could prove a contentious suggestion as the trade is heavily restricted under international law.
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- Japan wins first pro-whaling vote in two decades
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  A majority of nations at the International Whaling Commission approved a non-binding declaration that criticized a 1968 moratorium on commercial whaling, blamed whales for depleting fish stocks and said nongovernmental organizations were a threat.
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- Greenland seeks to hunt humpback, bowhead whales
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Anti-whaling nations attending an International Whaling Commission, or IWC, meeting in the Caribbean island state of St Kitts and Nevis said they were opposed to the proposal given the fragile state of most whale species.
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- Japan defeated on whaling, green groups relieved
  Posted by Billbar from Reuters
  Japan suffered a resounding defeat on Friday at the International Whaling Commission, calming fears among conservationists that might finally win enough support in the world body to start attacking a ban on whaling. "So far we have managed to dodge the harpoon," said Joth Singh, director of wildlife and habitat protection for the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
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25157 comments on:
Japan's Blue Whale and Minke Whale Hunt Ends

this is really sick someone should teach those japanese that blue whales aren’t supposed to be killed

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3:26 am 1/15/08
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Greenpeace: Japan resumes whaling after escape bid
Japan should stop whaling!
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1:03 pm 12/24/05

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