The Japanese wanted to kill 50 fin whales, but they only got 1.
The big news today is that Japan killed far fewer whales than they set out to kill during this year’s “Scientific Whale Killing Season To Put Whale Meat On Supermarket Shelves And Restaurant Menus.”
They killed 679 of the 850 minke whales they wanted to kill, and only one of the 50 fin whales they planned to hunt. According to the Japanese themselves – not Sea Shepherd – the Japanese hunt was thwarted by the activist group’s efforts to hinder them, including a collision with one of the Sea Shepherd’s vessels.
And they also ran into a lot of bad weather.
I read yesterday that during all this, a Japanese “researcher” fell overboard and was not recovered. Sea Shepherd offered to help in the rescue effort, but were told no thanks. The Japanese later said that they were actually getting in the way. You can watch all this on Animal Planet in June.
[...] But there does seem to be plenty of evidence to support his assertion that Sea Shepherd saved some whales from Japanese scientists. [...]