Japanese whalers caught slaughtering a minke whale in Australian whale sanctuary - Polidicks

[t]http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/854f06e37dfb3f50bda30058a9855e3e[/t][t]http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8184678-3x2-940x627.jpg[/t] [QUOTE][B]JAPANESE whalers were caught slaughtering a minke whale in an Australian whaling sanctuary waters at the same time Australia was playing host to its Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe.[/B] The Federal Government has this morning condemned Japan after one of its ships was caught whaling in the waters off Antarctica. Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd released photos showing a dead minke whale on the deck of the Nisshin Maru ship in the Australian whaling sanctuary. It appears the death was playing out at the same time as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s weekend meeting with Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney, at which the ABC reports whaling was ‘mentioned’, but focused on trade and defence. Today, Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg said the government was “deeply disappointed” that Japan had decided to return to the Southern Ocean. “Australia is opposed to all forms of commercial and so-called ‘scientific’ whaling,” he said in a statement on Monday. “It is not necessary to kill whales in order to study them.” He said Australia would continue its efforts in the International Whaling Commission to strongly oppose whaling and promote whale conservation. “The fact that the Japanese crew went to cover up their harpoons and the dead minke whale on deck just shows that they know what they’re doing is wrong,” the captain of Sea Shepherd’s MY Steve Irwin, Wyanda Lublink, said in a statement. In 2014 the United Nations’ ICJ ordered Tokyo to end the Antarctic hunt, saying it found permits issued by Japan were “not for purposes of scientific research”. Japan cancelled its 2014-15 hunt after the ruling, but restarted it the following year under a new program with a two-thirds cut in the target catch number — saying the fresh plan was genuinely scientific. Tokyo claims it is trying to prove the whale population is large enough to sustain a return to commercial hunting. But the meat from what it calls scientific research often ends up on dinner tables. The killing of whales and dolphins within the Australian Whale Sanctuary is prohibited by the Federal Government.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/government-disappointed-as-minke-whale-slaughtered-in-our-waters/news-story/99067c0f91acb01bdd1b278049c18722"]Source[/URL]

Good old Japan, forever in search of scientifically determining the optimal way to season and serve protected whales.

Whale wasn't even that good when I tried it there it was just.... really oily and tasted weird I did try it raw though

[QUOTE=Kill001;51678957]Whale wasn't even that good when I tried it there it was just.... really oily and tasted weird I did try it raw though[/QUOTE] A lot of the stupid poaching that Japan and China do don't actually produce any worthwhile product. It's all status and tradition. Shark fin soup tastes like raw ass, but its shark fin soup, so people buy it. Same for all the dumb aphrodisiacs and shit they're hocking

They sell minke whale meat at supermarkets here too. Kinda expensive, don't know how it flies. Hunting in a sanctuary zone seems like a dumb as fuck move, but it seems like they're gonna get away with it.

[QUOTE=Kill001;51678957]Whale wasn't even that good when I tried it there it was just.... really oily and tasted weird I did try it raw though[/QUOTE] Whale tastes not much different from steak in my experience, I eat it now and then. It's pretty nice.

Why isn't the Australian government monitoring and intervening in their own waters? Get the Navy out there and arrest some people. Is it too diplomatically incorrect to do so?

This again [QUOTE=elixwhitetail;51678921]Good old Japan, forever in search of scientifically determining the optimal way to season and serve protected whales.[/QUOTE] Two can play at this game [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBTnim2H450[/media] [editline]16th January 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Smoot;51679265]Why isn't the Australian government monitoring and intervening in their own waters? Get the Navy out there and arrest some people. Is it too diplomatically incorrect to do so?[/QUOTE] The shark navy only works if they aren't being hunted

[QUOTE=Kill001;51678957]Whale wasn't even that good when I tried it there it was just.... really oily and tasted weird I did try it raw though[/QUOTE] Whale meat is no good raw. Try it Norwegian style: grilled. The meat can be really tender or tough as shit. Sometimes it has an aftertaste of oil/blubber, other times it just straight up tastes like steak.

[QUOTE=Smoot;51679265]Why isn't the Australian government monitoring and intervening in their own waters? Get the Navy out there and arrest some people. Is it too diplomatically incorrect to do so?[/QUOTE] Too many illegal boat people to keep an eye out for... Whales aren't allotted in the budget.

[QUOTE=Smoot;51679265]Why isn't the Australian government monitoring and intervening in their own waters? Get the Navy out there and arrest some people. Is it too diplomatically incorrect to do so?[/QUOTE] The Australian whale sanctuary's multiple massive stretches of water from the Australian coast to Antarctica. Most of it's not going to be patrolled and just relies on people not being shit dicks.

We seriously need to arrest everyone on these boats, and put them on trial. If they are found guilty, put them in jail, and then find a company willing to make an artificial reef out of the whaling ships. Most people say this oversteps, but if you are going to willingly break the law no matter what, you should have your equipment seized and destroyed.

[QUOTE=Bazsil;51678969]A lot of the stupid poaching that Japan and China do don't actually produce any worthwhile product. It's all status and tradition. Shark fin soup tastes like raw ass, but its shark fin soup, so people buy it. Same for all the dumb aphrodisiacs and shit they're hocking[/QUOTE] Luckily big status figures have been stepping in for China to stop the shark finning. Yao Ming's campaign [URL=https://howtoconserve.org/2015/09/11/yao-ming-saving-sharks/] has proven pretty effective in curbing its consumption,[/URL] and it's become taboo to even mention shark fin soup unless you're a wealthy citizen. You'd probably need a high-level celebrity who's not afraid of sacrificing their career and a chunk of money to really fight against whaling. As long as there's a market for it, people will hunt. Don't eat whale.

[QUOTE=aznz888;51680158]Luckily big status figures have been stepping in for China to stop the shark finning. Yao Ming's campaign [URL=https://howtoconserve.org/2015/09/11/yao-ming-saving-sharks/] has proven pretty effective in curbing its consumption,[/URL] and it's become taboo to even mention shark fin soup unless you're a wealthy citizen. You'd probably need a high-level celebrity who's not afraid of sacrificing their career and a chunk of money to really fight against whaling. As long as there's a market for it, people will hunt. Don't eat whale.[/QUOTE] Create an anime character named Shark-kun who plays goes to highschool and plays volleyball with scantily clad highschool girls and watch Japan turn against whaling overnight.

[QUOTE=meek;51679012]They sell minke whale meat at supermarkets here too. Kinda expensive, don't know how it flies. Hunting in a sanctuary zone seems like a dumb as fuck move, but it seems like they're gonna get away with it.[/QUOTE] They've been doing it for decades in the wide open. No one cares.

Poachers are the fucking worst. Especially the chinese ones that throw dogs into boiling hot water alive, retarded pieces of shit.

Kinda wish authorities would start employing the same tactics as some parts of Africa and just indiscriminately open fire on the fuckers and execute the survivors.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;51682392]Kinda wish authorities would start employing the same tactics as some parts of Africa and just indiscriminately open fire on the fuckers and execute the survivors.[/QUOTE] Kenya's Borana Reserve shoots poachers on sight to protect rhinos. It works well. What poachers it doesn't deter beforehand it allows them to eliminate. Turns out dead people aren't a problem to deal with. You'd have a bunch of sentimental people throwing a fit over that kind of policy in places like Australia though. "It's inhumane." "That's too violent." "It's not worth it." Etc. Hopefully, the government would have enough common sense to just ignore them and realize that they haven't got any solutions to offer to fix the problem. I personally don't see any problem with it, considering the environmental implications of not enforcing protection. We can't just allow people to drive species to extinction and to destroy huge swathes of land. Fucking over the planet is a bad thing for obvious reasons.

I'm fine with killing militant poachers in Africa, but the situation in the Southern Ocean is a little bit more nuanced than militant poachers. The Japanese ICR is a non-profit owned by Japan. As in, [I]The Japanese Government.[/I] They've sent Coast Guard along with the fleet in the past to defend against Sea Shepherd activists. If you opened fire on the whalers, you'd basically be waging war with Japan itself. [img]http://i.imgur.com/k2FwubF.jpg[/img] No nation in their right mind would open fire on that. What you [I]could[/I] do, if you actually cared, is park an [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAS_Perth_(FFH_157)]Australian Navy Frigate[/url] on the slipway of the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisshin_Maru]Japanese factory ship[/url], making it impossible to transfer whales to it, and causing a [I]very[/I] visible international incident. Basically a big "fuck off"

[QUOTE=Omali;51680175]Create an anime character named Shark-kun who plays goes to highschool and plays volleyball with scantily clad highschool girls and watch Japan turn against whaling overnight.[/QUOTE] [URL="https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1097&bih=578&q=tsundere+shark"]We already tried that.[/URL]

[QUOTE=GhillieBacca;51680240]Poachers are the fucking worst. Especially the chinese ones that throw dogs into boiling hot water alive, retarded pieces of shit.[/QUOTE] I didn't know you could poach dogs. I've only ever poached an egg, seems the method is mostly the same. Do you still whisk the water?