Beep allots for the scientific hunt for the whale
By Denis Delbecq • November 19th, 2008 in 1:46 · Category: Actuality
On Monday, November 17th, Nisshin Maru went to sea. The indubitable sign which the season of the Japanese hunt for the whale took back. But, contrary in some years, the departure of the ship admiral of the fleet of Japanese whalers was made in the biggest discretion.
Once again, supporters and adversaries of the hunt for Cetaceas are going to confront one another on seas and in medium. Since 1986 and the coming into force of a moratorium on the commercial peach, their battle takes place in waters Antarctic as horse chestnuts appear in the European forests to autumn.
A ship of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society should chase Nisshin Maru in two weeks, announced the ecological organisation considered by Tokyo to be pirate. the environmentalists hope to prevent Japan, as last year, from filling its whales' quota. The previous season, the fleet of Japanese peach had to capture one thousand animals, officially for aims of scientific studies. The country, which has just allowed the importation of whale's meat of Icelandic origin blocked in the freezers of customhouses since last June, indeed pretends that the butchery of the big marine mammals is necessary to include the evolution of their population. According to BBC, more than two thousand tons of meat would be already stocked in the Japanese archipelago.
One of the main opposing countries in the whaling, Australia, announced this week his intention of launching an international scientific programme not - léthal on the animal. Authorities mischievously invited Japan to join their plan financed at the level of several million dollars. Last year, Canberra had sent in the southern ocean a ship made responsible for watching facts and gestures of the Japanese whaling fleet. A position of observer hired which had caused the ire of Tokyo, while the ships of Greenpeace and of Sea Shepherd prevented the whalers from going into action.
Then who of Australia or of Japan will take it this year? Just to drive the point home, BBC broadcast a documentary on November 18th (the trailer of which is spectacular) on the sharks-whales. He shows how the researchers learn it about the animal by analysing its faeces, or by fixing him a camera on the back. A way to prove that hunt is useless?
Picture: A boat of Greenpeace tries to prevent a renewal of supplies by carburizing from Nisshin Maru in Antarctic waters © Greenpeace
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Sea Shepherd will therefore be alone on zone and rumours mention the dispatch of a Japanese military ship with the fleet.