Japan kills whale in Australian sanctuary as hunters give Sea

>Labor described as "shocking" that the whale slaughter was getting underway as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was meeting at the weekend with Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney.

>Labor and the Greens are demanding the government take more direct action to stop the hunt.

>Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said in a statement the government is "deeply disappointed" by the resumption of whaling.

>"Australia is opposed to all forms of commercial and so-called 'scientific' whaling. It is not necessary to kill whales in order to study them," Mr Frydenberg said.

>Darren Kindleysides, from the Australian Marine Conservation Society, said Australia should not be "rolling out the red carpet" for Mr Abe but instead taking every legal and diplomatic avenue to stop whaling, including by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

>Japan was pursued in Federal Court over its whaling activities and fined $1 million but has refused to pay.

>Australia also won a landmark 2014 decision against Japan in the International Court of Justice but Tokyo has since withdrawn from the court's jurisdiction on whaling cases.

>Greens senator Nick McKim has called on Australia's Border Force to send its vessels to the Southern Ocean to protect the Australian whale sanctuary and territorial waters.

>Australia has dispatched patrol vessels to the waters to monitor the whaling in the past.

>But only a handful of countries recognise Australia's territorial claims in Antarctica and officials are wary of any action that might disrupt the Antarctic treaty system, which puts all territorial claims on hold.

>>100408
>Japan was caught killing a whale deep inside Antarctic waters
So wait, the entire country moved itself just to kill a whale? I thought it was Japanese people that hated whales and not the country itself. That's some mythological shit. God help us if Japan ever decides to ram the coast of another landmass to try to get to Sea World. No wonder they get so many tsunamis and earthquakes, they're living on a sentient moving landmass.

>>100458
Have you ever seen the show 'Whale Wars'?

>>100460
have you ever heard of the mythical `joke`

>>100408
God I hate hippies.

>>100477
Everyone does anon, they should all be fed to the whales.

>>100408
FUCK YOU WHALE

Poor whalers, away from their families for short periods of time.

>>100486
AN FUCK YOU DORPHEEN!

NUKE THE WHALES!

>>100474
Try making a good one first.
>>100458
Because this shit here? Really tryhard. Reminds me of a redditor trying to get upvotes by pushing "BUT WHAT IF" humor. I suggest you fucking kill yourself

>>100458
>I thought it was Japanese people that hated whales and not the country itself.
Whale meat is considered a delicacy there. Whale steaks can fetch 5x the price of Kobe beef if you are privileged enough to know where the illegal market is which sells it.

>>100679
>visiting reddit

>>100647
You gotta believe in something.

>>100701
It's not illegal, the Japanese are basically exploiting a loophole that research samples may be consumed or something

>>100704
It really is illegal to have the whale meat supposedly collected under the guise of 'scientific research' end up in Tokyo fish markets. But granted, "illegal" on the international scale doesn't mean very much. Neither the toothless IWC or the UN is going to pass economic sanctions on Japan for this.

>>100701
Obviously, the loop hole should have been fixed by now and there is evidently some form of corruption stopping law makers from changing the laws.

>>100408
Wow sea shepherd, you had one job!

Japan is the most over rated shit on the Earth

Someone explain to me why the Japs are so fixated over killing whales that doesn't involve "tradition" or "scientific purposes" because we know both of those don't mean shit.

>>100679
>Too stupid to get the joke.
>Get upset when you figure it out.
Congratulations!

>>100881
Selling whale and whale accessories

>>100868
That is such a retarded comment. Unless the rest of the world puts it resources into stopping Japan there is no way Sea Shepherd can police the oceans (in reality it isn't their job!)

You need to get on a boat and stop posting comments like you think you are funny.

>>100866
Japan throws money at small nations serving their time on the IWC to buy their votes.

>>100881
>explain to me why the Japs are so fixated over killing whales that doesn't involve "tradition" or "scientific purposes"

Dude, why should anyone supply you with reason other than these. THESE ARE THE REASONS.

Just because you are tired of hearing them does not make them less relevant.

>>100986
They have help from Norway and Costa Rica.