Tōkyō (Japan), 18.02.2011 - The Japanese Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano said today that the Japanese whaling fleet will end their use in the Southern Ocean for the current season and move back the ships to their home ports. The minister justified the decision with the safety of crews and ships would no longer be guaranteed.
The "Bob Barker," a ship of the animal rights group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has, according to a statement of the organization employed for the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru industry since 9 February pursued and the disabled. The animal rights activists went ahead with acid and stink bombs, water cannons and disruptive action against Japanese whalers. Sea Shepherd said the Japanese whaling ship has changed its course after the announcement of the Japanese Fisheries Ministry significant. The ships are
the animal rights organization "Steve Irwin", "Bob Barker" and "Gojira," said Sea Shepherd, Southern Ocean, remain in order to counter a possible return of the Japanese whalers can. Captain Watson said the decision of the Japanese Government was a major victory for the whales. The Japanese whaling fleet have so that you target will only reach to ten percent, said Sea Shepherd. The fishing target for this year's whaling season was it, 985 to catch whales for "scientific purposes". Sea Shepherd suggested that another reason for the premature end of this year's whaling in the Southern Ocean falling demand for whale meat in Japan. In the Japanese cold stores, several thousand tons of whale meat store.
Since 1986 is an international moratorium on commercial whaling. Japan circumvents the prohibition of fishing by the statement, whaling was intended solely for "scientific purposes", which permitted under the Agreement.
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