本帖最後由 dxb 於 2011-5-13 06:50 AM 編輯
为何这么残忍
Why are they always do such cruel acts, why can't they stop killing dolphins and whales for the sake of our future generation and the nature.... :(
The waters are stained RED!!
I have put together a few report into 1 for ease of reading.
Now then i found out that the killing was not for food initially but to kill them as they think the dolphins are reducing the number of tunas in the area which is not true at all!!!!
Every year on the first of September, in a small town called Taiji on the southeast coast of Japan's Honshu Island, a new fishing season begins: the dolphin season.Twenty-six fishermen in 13 boats corral a few dozen dolphins into a small cove, where they kill the animals by stabbing them repeatedly with long harpoons and knives. The 50-square-foot (4.6-square-meter) inlet turns crimson, as if filled only with blood.
This year they have decided to extend the KILLING for 1 more month!!!
reason being
This catch season began in September and was due to end in April. 'But we resumed the hunt after the Wakayama government extended its permission by one month until the end of May following a poor catch this year,' a Taiji Fisheries Cooperative official told AFP by telephone.
Every year the town's fishermen corral about 2,000 dolphins into a secluded bay, select a few dozen for sale to aquariums and slaughter the rest for meat, a practice long deplored by animal rights campaigners.
Animal rights activist Scott West of the group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society reported on the catch in a blog post. 'The pilot whales in the Cove did not quietly go to their deaths,' he wrote, describing how more than 20 of the animals were killed. 'They fought as best they could, churning up the water and dashing on the rocks.'
In the course of a six-month season, fishermen kill roughly 2,000 dolphins and sell the meat to local supermarkets for about U.S. $500 a dolphin. The fishermen supplement their income by taking about a hundred dolphins alive and selling them for tens of thousands of dollars each to aquariums in Japan, ChinaSouth Korea, and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
Traditionally dolphin hunts have been isolated to a handful of small fishing towns, where dolphin meat is well liked.
Ironically, a Japanese town where dolphin wasn't popular became the first to draw international attention to drive hunting, the practice of corralling the dolphins into a cove. In the late 1970s fishermen in Iki, a small town on an island west of Taiji, had come to believe that dolphins were depleting stocks of a popular fish called yellowtail, though there's no data to suggest dolphins have ever significantly reduced yellowtail stocks.
There's this link to youtube on the footage taken by this show "The Cove" which show how they hunt with cruelty.
http://youtu.be/M0w2wsVV0KY
Viewer discretion is advised as it is very bloody.
It is extremely inhumane and the animals are fighting to survive.
Although there are similar acts elsewhere out of japan, but the biggest and most horrific act is in Japan.
My heart bleeds for the animals... |
發表於 2011-5-6 03:25 PM
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