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Japan kills 551 whales, short of target
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Japan kills 551 whales, short of target
Repeated ?sabotage? by activists forced Japan?s whaling fleet to catch only 551 whales in the Antarctic, far short of its target under what it calls an annual research whaling programme, the Fisheries Agency said yesterday.
Japan had planned to catch about 850 minke whales in the Antarctic during the hunting season. ?We caught 551 minke whales, far below our original target?, said a Fisheries Agency official. ?Sabotage by activists is a major factor behind our failure to achieve our target.?
Militant anti-whaling campaigners from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had repeatedly confronted Japan?s whaling fleet earlier this year.
Last month, members of the Sea Shepherd group threw bottles and containers of foul-smelling substances at a whaling ship in an attempt to disrupt the hunt, resulting in three sailors complaining of eye irritation.
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