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- From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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- Subject: NEWS: Japan Moves to Resume Commercial Whaling
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- Date: 25 Jan 1993 04:38:43 GMT
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- [Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
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- PRESS RELEASE
- GREENPEACE CONDEMNS JAPANESE MOVE TO RESUME COMMERCIAL WHALING
-
- ANTARCTICA, JANUARY 8 1993 (GP) Greenpeace today strongly
- condemned an announcement by Japanese officials that Japan
- intends to resume commercial whaling in the Antarctic.
-
- Officials from the Japanese Fisheries Agency said on Tuesday
- that Japan would submit a set of proposals to the next meeting
- of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), in Kyoto in May.
-
- "It is outrageous that Japan would put forward a proposal to
- resume Antarctic whaling when the meeting in Kyoto is due to
- discuss plans to make the whole Antarctic a whale sanctuary,"
- said campaigner Kieran Mulvaney, speaking from the
- organisation's vessel, the MV Greenpeace, in Antarctic waters.
-
- At its most recent meeting, the IWC agreed by consensus to give
- full consideration in Kyoto to a proposal by France to make all
- waters south of 40 degrees South a whale sanctuary. The French
- proposal states that it is intended to `contribute to the
- rehabilitation of a marine ecosystem which has been severely,
- but hopefully not irretrievably, damaged by human exploitation
- in less than one century.'
-
- "Japanese officials have made it clear that they expect to kill
- thousands of minke whales a year," said Mulvaney. "They will
- justify the killings as part of a "scientific" management scheme.
-
- "The minkes are the last large population of great whales
- at anything near their original abundance. They should not
- become the target of an industry simply because a nation is
- able to send ships half way around the world to catch them
- in international waters."
-
- The MV Greenpeace is in Antarctic waters to promote the
- whale sanctuary. Last year the ship was involved in a 53
- day confrontation with Japan's "scientific" whaling fleet,
- which takes whales under a program criticised by the IWC.
- Whales caught are sold on the commercial market in Japan.
-