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MONTH: March 2008

Pew Charitable Trust symposium favors coastal whaling

 

 

TOKYO--Chairing a "Whale Symposium" sponsored by the environmentally oriented Pew Charitable Trusts, former Samoan ambassador to the United Nations and International Criminal Court judge Tuiloma Neroni Slade on February 20, 2008 said, according to the Pew web site, that "the most promising compromise" to resolve conflict with Japan over the 22-year-old International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling "would be a combination of actions which would recognize potentially legitimate claims by coastal whaling communities; suspend scientific whaling in its current form and respect sanctuaries; and define a finite number of whales that can be taken by all of the world's nations."

Responded Dolphin Project founder Ric O'Barry, "Here I am in Taiji working in dangerous conditions to stop coastal whaling and these clowns are promoting it!"

Slade spoke three weeks after fishers killed seven dolphins at Naga Bay, Okinawa. Okinawans had not hunted whales since 1990.