太地町のイルカ追い込み漁に非難の声、ケネディ大使も懸念表明
source : 2014.01.19 CNN (ボタンクリックで引用記事が開閉)
和歌山県太地町で行われているバンドウイルカの追い込み漁に、自然保護団体などから改めて非難が集中している。ケネディ駐日大使は短文投稿サイトの「ツイッター」で懸念を表明した。
ケネディ大使は「イルカ追い込み漁の非人道性を深く懸念している」としたうえで、「米政府は追い込み漁に反対する」とツイートした。
また、反捕鯨団体「シー・シェパード」は１７日以降、イルカが入り江に追い込まれたとして、選別作業などの模様を実況映像やツイッターで逐一報告。「暴力的な選別で親子が引き裂かれ、一生捕らわれの身となるか、殺されるか、海へ追い返されるかが決まる」などと伝えている。
追い込み漁は、イルカの群れを入り江などに追い込んで捕獲する伝統漁法。２００９年にアカデミー賞を受賞したドキュメンタリー映画「ザ・コーヴ」で、太地町の漁が残酷な風習として紹介され、国際的な批判の対象となった。地元当局は当時、偏見に基づいた作品だと反論。合法的な漁法が批判される理由はないと抗議してきた。
ツイッター上では、ケネディ大使の発言に賛同する意見が相次いでいる。米ロックバンド、ガンズ・アンド・ローゼズの元ドラマー、マット・ソーラムさんは同大使に「太地に残忍な虐殺をやめるよう迫ることができたら、世界の英雄になれるだろう」と応援のメッセージを送った。米女優カースティ・アレイさんも、「何百頭ものイルカが虐殺されようとしている。日本よ、この惨劇を止めて」と書き込んだ。
Stressed, bloody dolphins await slaughter in Japan's Taiji Cove
source : 2014.01.19 CNN (ボタンクリックで引用記事が開閉)
More than 200 bottlenose dolphins spent a second day penned in a cove by Japanese fishermen, U.S. conservationists said Sunday, many of them stressed and bloodied from their attempts to escape.
The dolphins will spend a third night without food or rest in Taiji Cove before the fishermen likely start to slaughter them Monday for meat, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said.
Until now, the fishermen have focused on selecting dolphins to be sold into captivity at marine parks and aquariums in Japan and overseas, the conservation group said.
Twenty-five dolphins, including a rare albino calf, were taken on Saturday "to a lifetime of imprisonment," and another 12 on Sunday, the group said. Two dolphins have died in the process.
Environmental activists have been monitoring activities in the cove in southwest Japan, which is a focal point of the Taiji community's annual dolphin hunting season.
Although the hunting of dolphins is widely condemned in the west, Japanese defend the practice as a local custom -- and say it is no different to the slaughter of other animals for meat.
Caroline Kennedy, the recently installed U.S. ambassador to Japan, tweeted that she is "deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing."
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been live-streaming video of events in the cove and posting frequent updates on Twitter.
"Many of the 200+ Bottlenose dolphins who are in still the cove are visibly bloody & injured from their attempts to escape the killers," one update Sunday said.
Another appealed for people to do their part to end the demand for dolphins captured from the wild.
"Dolphin slaughter in Taiji continues because of the captive trade. Please do not support aquariums & parks with marine mammals," it said.
■Slaughter under tarpaulins
The dolphins earmarked for slaughter include those with nicks or markings which make them less desirable as captives.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society described how about 40 to 60 local fishermen work with nets to divide up the pod, whose initial numbers were estimated by the group at more than 250.
"They tighten up the nets to bring each sub-group together then the skiffs push them toward the tarps. Under the tarps in the shallows is where the trainers work with the killers to select the 'prettiest' dolphins which will sell and make the best pay day for the hunters," the group said.
"But the process is brutal and stressful. Some of them die from injuries incurred during the manhandling or simply the stress."
Once the slaughter begins, it will turn the water in the cove red with blood, as documented in footage captured by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the past.
The fishermen will "kill the 'undesirable' dolphins (those with nicks and scars) under the tarps to hide from our cameras when that time comes," the group said.
■Officials say criticism is biased, unfair
CNN has been unable to reach anyone at the town office for Taiji, a community of about 3,000 that juts into the Pacific Ocean, or the local fishermen's union for comment.
But local officials have reacted angrily in the past to Western criticism of what they say is a traditional practice dating back centuries.
A 2009 Oscar-nominated documentary film, "The Cove," brought the issue of dolphin hunting in Taiji to the fore with bloody scenes of dolphin slaughter.
The Wakayama Prefecture, where Taiji is, condemned the film in an online response as distorted, biased and unfair to the fishermen.
"The Taiji dolphin fishery has been a target of repeated psychological harassment and interference by aggressive foreign animal protection organizations," it said.
"Taiji dolphin fishermen are just conducting a legal fishing activity in their traditional way in full accordance with regulations and rules under the supervision of both the national and the prefectural governments. Therefore, we believe there are no reasons to criticize the Taiji dolphin fishery."
The Japanese practice of whale hunting has also put it in conflict with the views of much of the world.
Japan's fleet carries out an annual whale hunt despite a worldwide moratorium, taking advantage of a loophole in the law that permits the killing of the mammals for scientific research. Whale meat is commonly available for consumption in Japan.
Environmental activists warn that dolphin meat, also sold for consumption in Japan, contains dangerously high levels of mercury and other toxins.
CNN first learned about this story through a CNN iReport posted by Martha Brock, an environmental attorney and activist in Georgia. "There are activists around the world that are calling the embassy and the press, but I knew I couldn't do much, so I wrote this iReport," she said.
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