Whale death tied to trash Oct 16, 2008
Bryde's whales are members of the baleen whale suborder and are found in tropical waters. More from msnbc. (MSNBC -- International)
Troubled waters: Did we really save the whale? Sep 22, 2008
Under its Antarctic Research Programme, known as JARPA, and its North Pacific equivalent, known as JARPN, Japan has killed 7,900 minke whales, 243 Bryde's whales and 140 sei whales, as well as 38 sperm whales, which it resumed hunting in 2000. In 2006, JARPA II took 1,073 minke whales known to their hunters as "cockroaches of the sea" and added 50 fin whales to the tally. (Independent)
Japan ends whale hunt with 211 catches Aug 22, 2008
Since they left on June 6, the ships caught 100 sei whales, 59 minke whales, 50 Bryde's whales and two sperm whales, the agency said Friday. The Japanese government, which says whaling is part of the national culture, plans to kill around 1,000 whales a year using a loophole in a 1986 international moratorium that allows "lethal research" on whales. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Mom and Pop focus on plight of humpback whale Feb 5, 2008
Japan has hunted minke, sperm, sei, fin, and Bryde's whales under an IWC regulation that allows governments to take whales for scientific research. This past December, Japanese fishing authorities were planning to kill 50 humpback whales for research. (Weymouth News, MA)
Japanese science in bite-sized chunks Nov 23, 2007
Twenty years later, Japan has killed almost 10,500 mostly minke and Bryde's whales, and has plans to slaughter several thousand more. By contrast, it killed just 840 whales in the name of scientific research between 1954 and the international moratorium on commercial whaling, imposed in 1986. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
