Australian court fines Japanese whaling company $1 mil for contempt
Source: JapanToday
SYDNEY —
An Australian court fined a Japanese whaling company A$1 million on Wednesday for violating a court order that it stop hunting whales in an area off Antarctica.
Federal Court Justice Jayne Jagot found that Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, the company that operates Japan’s hunting ships, had repeatedly breached a 2008 court injunction to stop killing whales inside Australia’s exclusive economic zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from Australian-declared territory in Antarctica.
Commercial whaling was banned in 1986, but Japan continued to kill whales under an exemption for scientific research. The country does not recognize Australia’s territorial claim on the waters off Antarctica, and kept up its annual hunt despite the 2008 injunction until the International Court of Justice ruled last year that the hunts were not truly scientific.
In June, Japan said it would resume whaling in the Antarctic this year, with plans to catch 333 minke whales annually between 2015 and 2027 — about a third of its previous targets.
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Is that how dumbed down the majority of people have become that it takes a panel of respected judges to point out the obvious?
It's about profit and finding loopholes in the legal system. We paint the word research on the side of them, in English, on our Japanese vessels, so our purpose is clear. Our "research" requires a fleet of vessels for tracking, hunting, I mean researching, and hauling our research subjects back half way across the planet, back to where they can be sold and eaten, I mean, studied.
Scientists much all be rich people, if they can justify a fleet of ships bigger than some country's Navies, all for research.
