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Japan Dolphin Slaughtering

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In 2004 we started our Save Japan Dolphins campaign. Fishing boats close off a cove with nets to trap dolphins in Taiji Japan on Sept. News The Sea Of Slaughter Taiji S Dolphin Killing Season International Marine Mammal Project Using a technique called drive fishing hunters in a line of motorized boats. Japan dolphin slaughtering . The picturesque Japanese fishing village of Taiji in southwestern Honshu has become notorious in recent years for its annual dolphin hunt in which some 2500 dolphins and other small cetaceans are killed in coastal waters between September and April. The horrifying scenes were recorded in September in Taiji a small coastal town in Wakayama Prefecture which was the filming location for the 2009 documentary The Cove. In the 201819 season a total of 234 striped dolphins were killed in Taiji just over half of the government quota of 450. Twenty dolphins were slaughtered on Friday in the southwestern Japanese town of Taiji marking the beginning of the