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If you’ve seen “The Cove,” then you should be pretty familiar with some of the despicable tactics that Japan uses to create a pro-Japan voting block at the International Whaling Commission. In the film, the producers outline how Japan essentially bribes 3rd world and developing countries into joining the IWC and voting with Japan to pass or to block certain measures.
Well, Japan’s latest recruit is the Republic of Ghana, which recently became the 86th voting member of the IWC.
A total of 17 developing African nations have joined the IWC since 2001. These nations frequently support Japan’s laughable (at best) assertion that declining fish stock in the Earth’s oceans is due to the fact that too many whales and dolphins are eating all the fish.
Members of the opposition government in Australia are urging environment minister Peter Garrett to form an international coalition that will act against Japan under the International Law of the Sea. But for now, Garrett has offered to meet with Ghana and the other African nations to outline Australia’s position that the IWC can be reformed into a better conservation body.
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