Japan stopped whaling in Antarctica by environmentalists

Japan has temporarily suspended its annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters because of the harassment of environmental organizations who rely on this controversial practice is now closer to an end.
A spokesman for Japan's Fisheries Agency announced Wednesday that the Nisshin Maru whaling ship crippled their catches on 10 for safety, to the aggressive practices of the conservation group Sea Shepherd, and evaluate what decision to make now and Japan stopped whaling..
The environmental organization Greenpeace was assumed that the return will be decided ahead of Japan's whaling, which processes the catches of three other boats with a total crew of 180 men, fishing with spears to the huge cetaceans.

Japan stopped whaling

The Japanese whaling season, which was to last until March, was suspended when the Nisshin Maru was in an area near Chilean territorial waters, according to the local agency Kyodo and Japan stopped whaling.
Whaling has been reported to Tokyo constant criticism throughout the world and even a complaint from Australia to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to hide, under assumptions scientific, purely commercial motivations and Japan stopped whaling..

In recent years, catches of the Nisshin Maru have been complicated by the sabotage of American Sea Shepherd in the cold Antarctic waters, with practices such as collision, release of corrosive acids or chains of the whaling activists, which have caused irritation in Japan .

Hunting whale

Japan, Iceland and Norway are the only countries that continue whaling, a practice that Tokyo is defended as an ancient cultural tradition, born on the coast of Taiji, Wakayama, who also holds a controversial hunting of dolphins and Japan stopped whaling..
The spokesman Minister of Japan, Yukio Edan, today deplored the stonewalling against the issuing "scientific" and said Japan will ask other nations to take action against him.