Saturday, June 17, 2006

No current estimates are stated. The Japanese were hunting them heavily a year or so ago.



Sei whale video is at the site when click on the link above. It's there along with the Humpback videos.

The Japanese factory ships can clear out a pod of hundreds of feeding whales in Antarctica in a day or so. They hunt the females and the juveniles. They aren't supposed to but there is nothing to stop them. No one chases the factory ships, no government that is a member of the IWC enforces limits. It is left to activist groups like Greenpeace. These groups also monitor the 'tables' in Japan by running DNA samples of the meat served there. There are 'DNA' records of individuals and it can be discerned if the Japanese are serving endangered species or those approved through the IWC (The International Whaling Commission.) Lack of an accounting of Seis is troubling.

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