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A fleet of Japanese whaling ships return to Tokyo after killing minke
A fleet of Japanese whaling ships will return to Tokyo later this week after killing 440 minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean under the country's "research" whaling program.
The Japanese government says the crew of the five vessels, which are due to dock tomorrow, observed almost five-and-a-half thousand minke whales in more than two-thousand pods.
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Toyko says the whaling reserach is being conducted under international laws with the aim of collecting data about whale resources and to study the environment and ecology of the Antarctic Ocean.
Japan stopped commercial whaling in 1988, in line with the International Whaling Commission's moratorium adopted in 1982 and which took effect in 1986.
But it began what it calls "research" whaling in 1987 using a loophole in the 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling permitting the killing of hundreds of minke and other whales a year for research purposes.
04/04/2002 05:08:42 | ABC Radio Australia News
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