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• In 13th October 1999,Around 200 bottlenose dolphins were driven into the Futo fishing port at Ito city Shizuoka prefecture. And the dolphins were slaughtered in the morning of next day. The staffs of an aquarium caught the dolphin for exhibition and have put on the stretcher.

  Read more: Dolphin Hunting Videos at Futo in 1999

MOSCOW, February 19. The first Russian national marine wildlife reserve is to be established on the Sakhalin Shelf in 2004. The Sakhalin Shelf area is inhabited by grey whales, which are on the brink of extinction. This announcement was made yesterday at a press conference by Amirkhan Amirkhanov, the head of the Russian Natural Resources Ministry's Department for Highly Protected Natural Areas and Preserving Biodiversity. According to Amirkhanov, since 2000 the region has been subject to industrial extraction of oil by a floating platform. In recent years the negative impact this has had on the environment, including drilling waste being disposed of at sea and an increase in noise and ultrasonic rays, has caused the grey whale population to fall. Amirkhanov said that the whales cannot get enough to eat in such uncomfortable conditions and suffer from exhaustion.

Read more: Russian Sets up First Nature Reserve for Grey Whales

"AquaStadium" will open in part of the Shinagawa Prince Hotel (Takanawa, Minato District, Tokyo) in front of Shinagawa train station on April 8th. The facility is aimed as an "entertainment space for adults," including a large dolphin pool with 1300 seats and a restaurant.

The "AquaStadium" is currently under construction at Shinagawa Prince Hotel, which upon completion will be 6900 square meters, consisting of a combination of different facilities including an indoor jet coaster and other four attractions, and a live hall with the capacity of 1900 people.

The theme of this project is "healing adults," focusing its customers on office workers and couples, by opening until late at night both during weekdays and weekends, and by having services such as a restaurant with small aquariums with tropical fish and cafes with original sweets menus.

Read more: Seibu Group's Prince Hotel Wants to Have Dolphin Shows

* 1997 Taiji Orca Capture*

Ten years have past since five orcas were captured in Taiji.

The background to the incident was reported by IKAN (Sorry it was written in Japanese languege only).

Shortly after the capture, in June of the same year (1997), the youngest baby, and a female that had been assumed to be pregnant, died one after another in an aquarium called the Adventure World .

*Three out of the five captured orcas have already died*

Furthermore, a male (called "Q-chan") that had also been sent to the Adventure World died two years ago (2005), leaving only two out of the five orcas.

One of the two survivors, "Coo", owned by the Taiji Whale Museum has been lent to the Nagoya Public Aquarium under a five-year contract. The other one, a female named "Asuka", was transported to the Mito Sea Paradise in Izu as a companion to "Yamato", a male orca from Iceland , but she was left alone when Yamato died in 2000.

Read more: Ten Years after Taiji Orca Capture