Rare albino dolphin caught by the Japanese will not be killed

Japanese fishermen chanced upon a pod of dolphins in a shallow cove in Taiji, Wakayama, central Japan. There were 12 dolphins and they killed 11 of them but spared a rare albino. They have captured it and transferred it into a small holding pen where they are trying to tame it and teach it to eat dead fish and adapt to human interaction.
They expect to sell the albino dolphin for at least £300,000 for being displayed in captivity. This has been revealed by the members of the Sea Shepherd conservationist group. These campaigners are trying to stop the controversial annual hunt of the dolphins in the town, as well as the sale of the mammals to aquariums.
It seems these rare, beautiful, and unique animals will spend the rest of their days confined to small tanks and will have to perform tricks for their food.
This controversial hunt takes place annually between September and March in Taiji, Japan and, while most of them are killed for their meat, some are sold live to aquariums around the world.
In the opinion of the Sea Shepherd group, the dolphins do not belong to Japan but to the ocean – and, since the beginning of the latest hunting season, 15 pods of dolphins have been slaughtered in the cove by Japanese fishermen accounting for the death of over 170 dolphins.
Moreover, during a four-day period in January the fishermen of Taiji had selected 52 dolphins for sale into captivity, slaughtered 41 for meat, and subsequently drove the surviving pod members back out to sea.
Incidentally, the locals do not see anything wrong in killing dolphins – to them it is just another animal slaughtered for its meat.