davidattokyo said...

davidattokyo at 09:47 AM JST - 27th October

jessssicaaa,

unfortunatly there is going to be a drop in sea creatures AND land creatures, we cant just stop that from happening, save the animals or quit eating any kind of meats?

It doesn't need to be this way. When naturally renewable resources are exploited on a sustainable, conservative…

Posted in Japan catches 59 whales off Kushiro at 09:47 AM JST - 27th October
davidattokyo at 09:42 AM JST - 27th October

cleo,

We now seem agreed that Japan was providing data (despite what the New Zealand government's anti-whalers were saying, and you swallowed so eagerly with fact checking for yourself).

And as you also point out they stopped doing so a couple of years ago due to the nonconstructive use of…

Posted in Japan catches 59 whales off Kushiro at 09:42 AM JST - 27th October
davidattokyo at 09:18 AM JST - 27th October

This is just lip service from the Dutch I fear.

spudman, indeed the Japanese should sort out their on board safety issues. That however is certainly not an excuse or an invitation for the SSCS lunatics to go smashing their boat in to the Japanese vessels repeatedly. (Indeed, may I…

Posted in Japan, Netherlands agree to ensure maritime safety over antiwhaling at 09:18 AM JST - 27th October
davidattokyo at 02:53 PM JST - 26th October

Or does your contract forbid you to read anything that might disagree with the official line of your minders?

Does your contract forbid you to admit it when you're wrong? See this all the time with Greenpeace.

Posted in Japan catches 59 whales off Kushiro at 02:53 PM JST - 26th October
davidattokyo at 02:52 PM JST - 26th October

LOL, now that I read carefully it appears that the New Zealand authors of the document you are quoting were back tracing, because it was a subsequent document from the same authors that I showed you already. They themselves admitted they were wrong essentially.

http://www.iwcoffice.org/_documents/commission/IWC59docs/59-WKM&AWI8.pdf

"Table 1 provides a list…

Posted in Japan catches 59 whales off Kushiro at 02:52 PM JST - 26th October
davidattokyo at 02:39 PM JST - 26th October

cleo,

The report you are quoting from (now that I do read it) was a document submitted by New Zealand's representatives, and as I've already shown, they were wrong to state that. I already showed you one document outlining the figures.

The quote is from the IWC.

The quote…

Posted in Japan catches 59 whales off Kushiro at 02:39 PM JST - 26th October
davidattokyo at 01:08 PM JST - 26th October

hobbsy70,

we all already know what whales eat!

Anti-whaling rhetoric says that whales eat krill only (google it), yet Japan has again shown this dogma to be false. So we can stop there and be ignorant, or we can look to understand this better and thus make for more…

Posted in Japan catches 59 whales off Kushiro at 01:08 PM JST - 26th October
davidattokyo at 12:50 PM JST - 26th October

cleo,

Sorry, but you're wrong. Struck and lost data is a requirement under the IWC's "Revised Management Procedure", which was established way back in the early 1990's. Japan didn't suddenly make this data available as you are trying to make out (for who?).

And then I'm not surprised to see…

Posted in Japan catches 59 whales off Kushiro at 12:50 PM JST - 26th October
davidattokyo at 12:27 PM JST - 26th October

Dilbert14,

You're again saying it's their right to brutally slaugther dolhins, but it's not the right of rest of the world to say anyting about it.

Sure the culturally intolerant can talk about "brutal mindless slaughter" etc, and "protest", that's fine. It's also my right to point out your…

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 12:27 PM JST - 26th October
davidattokyo at 01:02 PM JST - 24th October

Yes, if there is a problem in Japan it is with food labeling. This is a wider issue than just cetaceans (whales and dolphins) however.

Posted in 'The Cove' gets mixed reaction from Japanese audience at 01:02 PM JST - 24th October