Interpol puts 3 Sea Shepherd members on wanted list for blocking Japan whaling

Wednesday 17th September, 03:02 PM JST

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serindipity at 10:45 PM JST - 17th September

Whales are a sustainable and renewable source of food- kind of like a floating delicatessen. Why not harvest them and enjoy the benefits?

Boring!
cleo at 11:24 PM JST - 17th September

The southern oceans don'T belong to Australia and New Zealand. Anyone who feels the urge can put a hook in the water and land some protein on the fin

Fine, give the butchers a 2" fishhook each and a length of string, let them see how many whales they catch. For personal use only, of course.

serendipity -

I've never sat on a surfboard at any time of the day, but that is a superb image you paint. I would love to have that experience.
serindipity at 11:34 PM JST - 17th September

No, the southern oceans do not belong to Australia or New Zealand, but do you know how much of the southern oceans do belong to Australia and New Zealand? There is a small strip between Australia and New Zealand and another small strip between Australia and Antarctica. Do you know how much of the southern ocean is whale sanctuary? The small strip between Australia and Antarctica and New Zealand and Antarctica. Get it?

Unfortunately, defending Japan's whaling by defaming the activists just doesn't really cut it for a solid argument.
serindipity at 11:39 PM JST - 17th September

Whale sanctuary map:

http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/images/sanctuaries.jpg
Good_Jorb at 11:39 PM JST - 17th September

DS is right, what does it matter what twenty million Aussies and seven million Kiwis think, the area where Japan catches whales isn't eithers territorial waters, it's International waters. Just because Australia and only 4 other Countries recognize the AAT EEZ doesn't mean Austrialia calling it a whale sanctuary, somehow makes it reality and it certian doesn't make a "legal international whale sanctuary" because it is meaningless internationally. That is why Humane Society International v Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd failed.

If Australia, Sea Shepherd or whoever were serious about stopping the whaling they would push for international recognition of the AAT EEZ and then arrest the Japanese whalers, if they crossed into the AAT EEZ. Otherwise resorting to criminal acts to fight against other precieved criminal acts, is well criminal and those who committed the crime should be arrested and charged.
OssanULTRA at 11:47 PM JST - 17th September

"You may as well add me to that list Japan, we will do anything in our power to stop you illegally killing whales in a legal international whale sanctuary!"

If the above statement were true then the whaling could have and would have been stopped through legal means. The fact that it wasn't, and this terrorist group Sea Shepherd resorted to violence on the high seas is proof that your statement above is utter nonsense.
mikihouse at 12:39 AM JST - 18th September

time to hunt the sea sheperds...this will be a lot of fun
HimajinX at 12:53 AM JST - 18th September

To me this isn't about ownership or sustainability. We now have a pretty good idea that whales are one of the most intelligent mammals. I don't know about you, but if chimps were a local delicacy somewhere, I wouldn't feel very comfortable seeing them thrown on the bbq, given their intelligence and human-like behavior. Why should we lump whales in the food pile just because they evolved away from us?
ca1ic0cat at 02:34 AM JST - 18th September

The real problem here is that there are international treaties regarding what is against the law at sea. Sea Shepherd crossed the line. As there are really no treaties regarding the "whale sanctuary" the Japanese did not cross the line in terms of international law. That part of it is pretty cut and dried no matter whose opinion is being violated.
Thenewfront at 06:29 AM JST - 18th September

Maybe 3 are on wanted list but interpol don't waste their time and resources chasing people for stuff like this. Japan is wasting interpols time.
Thenewfront at 06:35 AM JST - 18th September

Wish the whalers would get another job where they don't piss off most of the developed world.

International diplomacy is not a Japanese srong point.
davidattokyo at 09:26 AM JST - 18th September

1) Research whaling is exempt from the rules of the IWC. Any member nation has the right to issue permits to its nationals to catch as many whales for research purposes as it sees fit, anywhere in the world. The IWC was not set up to regulate research whaling, it was set up to regulate whaling for purposes other than research purposes.

2) As such, it should be clear that the "Southern Ocean Sanctuary" (which was established 7 years after Japan commenced it's JARPA programme back in 1987 as a political measure), does nothing to prevent research whaling. Just calling something a "sanctuary" does not change the legal rules, which have now been agreed to by around 80 nations.
Scrote at 09:35 AM JST - 18th September

This year Japan set a quota for "research" whaling in the Southern Ocean of something like 1000 whales. Given that Japan has about 1/60th of the world's population this implies that either:

a) A total quota of 60000 whales per year is sustainable (unlikely)

or

b) Japan is greedily helping itself to more than its fair share of whales (much more likely).
Osakadaz at 12:25 PM JST - 18th September

The Japanese whalers want to force another Minamata outbreak on their population by encouraging them to eat meat that contains an abundance of mercury and PCBs.In a country that shafted America for a few isolated cases of mad-cow disease I think that is highly warped.I am definitely sympathetic to anti-whaling, but on health grounds alone dolphins and whales are hardly good for you.Tuna and Swordfish are bad enough as it is. Glad i won't be here to teach the next mercury-slowed generation.
JapanNippon at 04:56 PM JST - 18th September

I want to recommend the anti-whaling people to understand the international laws, safety measures on foods, etc. Greenpeace, IFAW, Sea Shepherd are just telling stories, showing movies, so that they can collect money.