Better we start with lawyers. Then go to other species of humans.

It looks that such a "scientific program is ongoing for many, many
years.
It started during WWII when Japanese trawlers were targets of
opportunity and one pilot (George Bush) was so committed to the job
that he was even strafing lifeboats with unarmed Japanese sailors.
The job was then continued by his son who authorized in 2001 USS
Greeneville  to attack Japanese trawler. Unfortunately that time the
sub captain didn't have balls to kill survivors.
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/archives.php?id=21873
Of course somebody less informed could say that it was an accident,
but any rec.scuba redneck can explain that it wasn't possible as the
American technology and training was superior.
Of course it should be mentioned another "strange accident" form 1995
when according to urban legend Russian Air Force cargo plane dropped
from 30 thousand feet live cow, which sunk Japanese trawler. Of course
it is not possible due to simple fact - Russians have huge supply of
different types of bombs, nuclear included, but their food supply is
rather short. They don't want to waste food and what is rather more
important Russians cows have short horns, which are useless for
piercing ship hulls and Soviet era bombers can't drop "smart weapons/
cows from 30000 feet. So definitely it was Texas longhorn dropped
from American B-52.
And there are also "private" enterprises as this one

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_khatchadourian?curre
ntPage=1

To summarize whale killers should be on the endangered species
list. ;-)))

Janusz

100% of the "scientific" catch is sold in the Japanese retail market.

The only organization willing to do anything is Sea Shephard
(seashephard.org) which has rammed several whalers and sunk a few.
Personally, I find their efforts crude and overly dramatic. I think they
should use Exocets.

esg

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What do they tast like? anything like Koala?

In article <69f181d9-6921-4d38-b899-e6ae43ea2827
@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, mossman@qnet.com says...
-"Japan's whaling fleet was set to leave port Sunday for its biggest-
-ever scientific whale hunt in the South Pacific, the government
-fisheries agency said.  The whalers have orders to kill up to 50
-humpback whales -- the first known large-scale hunt for the species
-since a 1963 moratorium put humpbacks under international
-protection. . . . Along with the humpbacks, the 239-member mission
-that runs through April will also take up to 935 Antarctic minke
-whales and up to 50 fin whales in their largest scientific whale hunt
-ever held in the South Pacific, according to a report Japan submitted
-to the International Whaling Commission earlier this year."
-
-http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071117/ap_on_re_as/japan_hunting_humpbacks;_ylt=AkL
uh4.y3GcH.vjs8YsAFbFxieAA
-
-What I wonder is, if there isn't any moratorium against it, why can't
-we hunt a certain number of Japanese every year for scientific
-purposes?  They're taking 1,035 whales.  I propose we take 1,035
-Japanese fishermen and find out what makes them want to kill whales.
-Only live brain dissections could truly give us an answer.

!! :)

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