The Telegraph
Aerial footage released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society appears to show the bloodied remains of three minke whales
By Hannah Strange
3:31AM GMT 06 Jan 2014
Three minke whales lie on the deck of the Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru in the Southern Ocean (Sea Shepherd Australia Ltd/Tim Watters)
Activists have captured rare images of protected whales slaughtered by a
Japanese fleet in what is said to be an internationally recognised ocean
sanctuary, offering a stark insight into Japan’s secretive but
much-criticised whaling practices.
The bloodied carcasses of three minke whales lie on the deck of the Japanese
ship Nisshin Maru in the aerial shots and footage taken by the anti-whaling
campaign group, Sea Shepherd, as its vessels pursued the fleet through the
Southern Ocean. The group said a fourth whale had already been killed.
“There’s three carcasses on the ship, a fourth carcass has been cut up.
There’s blood all over the place, meat being carted around on this factory
ship deck, offal and innards being dumped in the ocean,” said Bob Brown,
chairman of Sea Shepherd Australia
“That’s just a gruesome, bloody, medieval scene which has no place in this
modern world.”
The images, purportedly taken inside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, drew
international opprobium and renewed calls for Japan to end the controversial
whaling programme which critics say is endangering populations of the marine
mammals.
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