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Nagoya Port Aquarium will open a new facility in November. They announced that they will exhibit a mechanic orca which will be imported from Mannetron Inc. in the US. That's what we have been advising the aquarium to do instead of having living orcas. The idea was given to them while having many meetings with us to request them to give up their wish to capture orcas. So, I wrote an official document of the plan with some project plans which would certainly be very popular. However, they cunningly took my idea and have not given up their original idea to display live orcas. A huge tank for five or six orcas has already been built. I am so sad and feeling betrayed but I do not have time for such indignation.
Read more: Do not let Nagoya Port Aquarium introduce live orcas!
To:
Mr. Fumio Tawara
Director of The Fisheries Agency
Mr.Shuya Nakatsuka
Far Seas Fisheries Whaling Section
From:
Dolphin & Whale (Iruka & Kujira) Action Network
Secretary General Nanami Kurasawa
Problems around the keeping of Orcas at Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
I would like to thank you for all the hard work, from the perspective of biodiversity conservation, and I would also like to congratulate you for your critical reaction towards the Russian caught wild orca captivity plan.
Read more: Problems around the keeping of Orcas at Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium
An international meeting in San Francisco today slammed Russia for capturing an orca whale and killing another in defiance of the International Whaling Commission and in the face of world opinion. The Sunny Summit brought together 45 activists from 10 countries representing millions opposed to the exploitation of whales and dolphins in captive settings. A strongly worded resolution condemning the September 26th orca capture and death in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka waters was passed unanimously.
Read more: Russian capture of orca whale slammed in San Francisco
Even if we expected this to occur, it is still a great sadness that the female orca "Coo" died, on the 19th of September. Orcas live on the average to be 60 years in the wild – she was estimated to be only 18-19 years old – she did die young, indeed.
In 1997 February, a pod (family) composed of 10 orcas was driven into Hatajiri Bay in Taiji. 5 of them were separated and captured with the permission of the Japanese Fisheries Agency.
Read more: Regarding the death of the last orca of the Taiji 5 captured in 1997
False killer whales were captuered illegally.
Our first protest against the dolphin hunt which took place Oct., 1996 at Huto off the coast of Izu Peninsula was the first attempt taken by the Japanese NGO to disclose violation regarding the dolphin hunt.
We managed to have the fishermen release about 130 bottlenose dolphins and false killer whales back to the sea, and even 6 false killer whales that had been taken to the aquarium as well. It was a great success.
Dolphins are still being hunted commercially for food in Japan.
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