Blackfish isn’t the only thing that has animal activists upset in 2014.
A Japanese ship carrying four butchered whales has come under fire by activists after the vessel was caught in a commercial whaling free zone.
According to the Daily Mail, Sea Shepard an anti-whaling group caught the Nishin Maru in the protected Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. As a helicopter flew over the ship, workers were seen with four whale carcass. Workers were also seen chopping up the one of the whales and dumping it into the ocean.
‘There’s three carcasses on the ship, a fourth carcass has been cut up. There’s blood all over the place, meat being carted around on this factory ship deck, offal and innards being dumped in the ocean,’ said Sea Shepherd Australia chairman Bob Brown.
As Brown and his group demanded a stop to Japan breaking the commercial whaling laws, the country claims that the whales were for research, thus creating a loophole in process of whaling.
The commercial hunting of whales is prohibited in the sanctuary, which was designated by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1994, but Japan catches the animals there under a ‘scientific research’ loophole in the moratorium on whaling.
The area where the vessel was found was in the waters of New Zealand, where Foriegn Minister Murrary McCully denied that any animal cruelty was taken place.
With the disturbing videos and photos that have circulated around the web, it looks like activist have caught the poachers red-handed…literally.
SOURCE: Daily Mail | VIDEO SOURCE: News Inc.
