The meat from these slaughtered dolphins is hardly sold anywhere in Japan because most Japanese also know that it is largely contaminated with environmental poisons such as PCBs and mercury. In seafood the maximum recommended mercury value is 0.4 ppm. However, as much as 2,000 ppm has been measured in dolphin meat. Nevertheless the dolphin catchers still kill these animals as fish eaters they are still considered as competition in the fishing industry. In the north of Japan almost all the coastal dolphin populations have already been wiped out. This is also now the threat in the region around Taiji which lies further south.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:36:44 +0000
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