Activists have called Japan's programme "an illegal whale hunt" Japanese hunters caught and killed 122 pregnant minke whales as part of its Antarctic summer "field survey". A report sent to the ...
JARPA-2 as the program is identified involves catching 935 minke whales and 10 fin whales during the southern hemisphere summers to "...monitor the Antarctic ecosystem, model competition among ...
A minke whale was also found dead after entangling ... Webjørn Barstad, CEO of the new company, Aker BioMarine Antarctic, said developing new technologies to mitigate risks of whale mortalities ...
The latest figures show that of 333 minke Antarctic whales killed last summer, 181 were females. Some 122 females, or 67%, were pregnant. The hunt killed 61 immature males and 53 immature females ...