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Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 07:51 AM Mar 2012

Japan recalls its whaling fleet from the Southern Ocean

Source: Radio Australia News / ABC

Japan's Fisheries agency has told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the country's whaling fleet is heading home, after catching less than a third of its quota in the Antarctic.
...
The Sea Shepherd conservation group which harassed the fleet in the Antarctic says it's a massive victory for whales.

Despite receiving a special budget boost of 31.9 million US dollars to fend off Sea Shepherd, the Japanese whalers were repeatedly obstructed by the activists.

The Australian government says it welcomes Japan's decision to recall its whaling fleet from the Southern Ocean.

It says it remains opposed to commercial whaling, including Japan's so called "scientific" whaling program.

The Australian government says Australia will continue its efforts to achieve a permanent end to whaling through the International Court of Justice.
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Read more: http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201203/3449811.htm?desktop



That last sentence is the tricky part. The law certainly is not clear on the issue. Hence, the animal rights activists have to resort to "direct action".

These guys could have been better neighbors.
Let's jam to the Hoodoo Gurus:
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Japan recalls its whaling fleet from the Southern Ocean (Original Post) Kolesar Mar 2012 OP
K & R dipsydoodle Mar 2012 #1
Good! Nt xchrom Mar 2012 #2
K&R... stonecutter357 Mar 2012 #3
WTF?!? "Despite receiving a special budget boost of 31.9 million US dollars to fend off Sea Shepherd peacebird Mar 2012 #4
Japan's government allocated the money for "security" Kolesar Mar 2012 #5
Probably just a conversion zipplewrath Mar 2012 #6
ahh - that is probably it... :) peacebird Mar 2012 #7
I'm pretty sure the budget boost was Japan's money jmowreader Mar 2012 #21
good news and..... madrchsod Mar 2012 #8
K&R... stonecutter357 Mar 2012 #9
K&R... stonecutter357 Mar 2012 #10
YAY! catbyte Mar 2012 #11
I agree. Go Sea Shepherds! Go Paul Watson! nt GliderGuider Mar 2012 #13
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. Kennah Mar 2012 #22
Donate here: roody Mar 2012 #12
Wow! Great news!! chervilant Mar 2012 #14
Despite receiving a special budget boost of $31.9 million US dollars to fend off Sea Shepherd OranicManic Mar 2012 #15
I'd rather not have any more whale-wars on TV quakerboy Mar 2012 #19
just when I got the warbird gassed up, Good news! hankthecrank Mar 2012 #16
Bummer. bvar22 Mar 2012 #17
Apparently Japan's "RESEARCH" ran into some difficulty groundloop Mar 2012 #18
Most excellent job, Watson and Sea Shepherd. flvegan Mar 2012 #20

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
4. WTF?!? "Despite receiving a special budget boost of 31.9 million US dollars to fend off Sea Shepherd
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 08:42 AM
Mar 2012

.??
My tax dollars?? Wait a minute - i thought the US was so broke that we were looking at cutting many programs here at home.....

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
5. Japan's government allocated the money for "security"
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 08:54 AM
Mar 2012

They allocated the funds in a budget for relief from the earthquake and tsunami a year ago. "Just to make it worse"

zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
6. Probably just a conversion
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 08:57 AM
Mar 2012

I'd guess that would just be the news outlet (ABC) quoting the Japanese governments expenditures in US dollars instead of Japanese Yen.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
21. I'm pretty sure the budget boost was Japan's money
Sat Mar 10, 2012, 02:11 AM
Mar 2012

When the AP reports a sum of non-US money, they give the amount in the currency actually used then convert it into US dollars. Most editors delete the "currency actually used" part and just report the US dollar equivalent.

stonecutter357

(12,682 posts)
9. K&R...
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 09:34 AM
Mar 2012
Feb 25, 2012 – Fukushima radiation detected 400 miles away in Pacific Ocean at levels 1000 times higher than previous readings.

stonecutter357

(12,682 posts)
10. K&R...
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 09:42 AM
Mar 2012

Ken Buesseler, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who in 1986 studied the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the Black Sea, said the Fukushima disaster appeared to be by far the largest accidental release of radioactive material into the sea.

Chernobyl-induced radiation in the Black Sea peaked in 1986 at about 1,000 becquerels per cubic meter, he said in an interview at his office in Woods Hole, Mass. By contrast, the radiation level off the coast near the Fukushima Daiichi plant peaked at more than 100,000 becquerels per cubic meter in early April.

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
14. Wow! Great news!!
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:21 PM
Mar 2012

I hope that those who relentlessly denigrate Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherds will finally acknowledge that this intrepid group of activists have had a profound deterrent effect on the Japanese whale murderers.

 

OranicManic

(30 posts)
15. Despite receiving a special budget boost of $31.9 million US dollars to fend off Sea Shepherd
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:41 PM
Mar 2012

Yea, double take, WTF???

Anyways, I hope we get another Whale-Wars on Animal Planet this year.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
17. Bummer.
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 02:29 PM
Mar 2012

There goes one of my favorite TV Shows, Whale Wars!
Not going to be very exciting if the Whale Fleet goes home.

Looks like I will have to find something else to do on Friday nights.
Fucking selfish whales.

groundloop

(11,488 posts)
18. Apparently Japan's "RESEARCH" ran into some difficulty
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 02:30 PM
Mar 2012

Killing whales under the guise of "research" is such a sickening farce. The world community needs to get rid of that gaping loophole.

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