DOLPHINS • MURDER • JAPAN
Despite numerous protests from the international community, Japan's bloody catch dolphins is considered perfectly normal and legitimate business, bringing to the same big money.
1. Each year, from October to April in western Japan opens season on dolphins. Groups of fishermen from the village of Taiji in Wakayama province with the help of special devices create noise in the water curtain and driven hundreds of dolphins in a small protected bay of Taiji, where the animals are locked.
2. This method of hunting dolphins is called "Hunting corral" and is sometimes used for other cetaceans. Thus dolphins driven boats in the bay or bay, and sometimes right on the shore. To the animal could not escape, all the way to the open sea or ocean overlapped boats and nets.
3. In Japan, mostly hunt is conducted on a striped, Slender-snouted dolphin, bottlenose dolphin and gray dolphins.
4. Once the animals get into the corral, the part shown dolphins for captivity at the Dolphinarium - it is visited by representatives from many countries to choose dolphins, which will take away, and will be used to display the prices on the dolphins reach up to 150 000 dollars.
5. Part released into the sea, and the other fishermen put out to shallow water and killed with knives, spears and hooks. With this many dolphins die away immediately.
6. Despite the fact that the extremely controversial hunting causes international criticism, and on the health risks due to frequent cases of contaminated meat, every year, driven hunt catch thousands of dolphins.
7. Residents of Taiji from time immemorial engaged in the hunting of dolphins
8. The village of Taiji became known worldwide after the movie Louie Psihoyos' Cove "- it was shown slaughtering dolphins harpoons near this village, the film demonstrates the process of hunting, which looks more like a bloodbath. The film shows how profitable business in these animals, including the Japanese government, as well as talk about the suffering experienced by the dolphins at the Dolphinarium in captivity.
9. In the meat and fat of dolphins found high levels of mercury, cadmium, pesticide DDT, and organic pollutants such as PCBs. The degree of contamination is high enough to constitute a risk to the health of those who frequently eat meat and researchers warn that pregnant women and children in general should not eat this meat.
10. Because of the concern about the health of the dolphin meat prices dropped significantly.
11. As well as the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands, the Japanese justify actions catchers that Taiji residents from time immemorial engaged in this hunt, as well as the fact that the regulation of the dolphin population is important for the local fishermen.
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