Japan kills 333 whales in its latest Antarctic hunt - the figure was 252 whales in 2014

Four of Japan's whaling ships have returned from the Antarctic with a catch of 333 whales - including more than 200 pregnant females - the return was after a four-month long expedition and Japan claims that it is all for 'scientific' purposes. The current haul is a 'significant increase' over their 2014 hunt, because at that time, 252 whales were captured.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 25 March 2016.

Japan has continued to ignore international orders to put a stop to whale hunting and a ruling by the UN's International Court of Justice - in its opinion, the hunt was a commercial venture masquerading as science. Under the International Whaling Commission, to which Japan is a signatory, there has been a ban on hunting whales since 1986. However, Japan continues to go ahead in the practice using a loophole in the ban that allows for lethal research.
The claim of Tokyo is that it is trying to prove that the whale population is large enough to sustain a return to commercial hunting, and that it has to kill the mammals to carry out its research properly. Moreover, this time there had been no incidents with anti-whaling activists - on the previous mission environmentalist group Sea Shepherd had objected to the whaling activities.


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