Whaling


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Group Members: Danielle, Ryan, Liam and Andrew

In 1987, Japan became bound by the international moratorium on commercial whaling. Yet despite the ban, Japan's whaling fleet sailed south again to the whaling grounds in the Antarctic. The whaling fleet took the same species of whale they had caught the year before and returned them to Japan boxed in 15kg cardboard cartons, ready for sale. This was done under the guise of 'scientific' whaling, exploiting a loophole in international whaling regulations allowing for the killing of a small amount of whales annually, for research purposes.