Japan to bring whaling boats home

[WD-40]

Japan ends its annual Antarctic whaling season early, saying "harassment" by activists' ships had made it too dangerous to continue.

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[Catherine]

I cannot understand why they REALLY do it anyway..

I've just read this bit;

'Japan's fleet involves 180 people on four ships, with the aim to kill up to 945 whales in Antarctic waters during the southern winter season.

Japan says the aim is to study their impact on fish stocks.

Few Japanese eat whale regularly, but many object to what they see as unjustified foreign interference in a cultural tradition, the BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo reports.'

So, with Japan being another country feeling the pinch financially just now, what is the sense in doing it?

[rolf]

Me neither, that is a massive amount of whales to slaughter every year.