救救鯨魚吧 日本重啓海洋大屠殺

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爲恢復捕鯨，日方向國際捕鯨委員會提交新方案，把預定捕鯨數量減少至333頭，爲先前的三分之一。方案並未獲得國際捕鯨委員會批准，而日方執意繼續捕鯨。

Japan's whaling fleet has set out today for the Antarctic to resume a decades-old whale fleet has a target of taking in 333 Minke is down around two-thirds from previous whale hunts.

日本漁業部門總幹事大村國井說到："我們知道今年環保組織要干擾捕鯨的具體計劃方案。" 不過，他還警告船員要防範反捕鯨活動人士的威脅。他說：“根據有關報告，他們強烈反對我們恢復科學研究捕鯨項目，並且說要在海上攔截我們的漁船作業。但是我們在與有關方面協調，確保這次捕鯨任務的安全。”

Satoshi Kunii, head of Japan's Fisheries Agency, says they are aware of plans by environmental groups to disrupt the hunt again this year. "According to these (reports), they are strongly against the resumption of our research whaling programme and have said things that could be interpreted as vowing to obstruct our operations if they meet up with us at sea. But the Ministry of Fisheries is coordinating with the appropriate ministries to ensure the safety (of this mission) and will continue to deal with this appropriately."

反捕鯨活動人士在過去的十幾年裏一直在與日本捕鯨船隊作鬥爭，以致在冰冷的南極洋地區發生了許多起危險的事故。國際捕鯨委員會1986年通過《全球禁止捕鯨公約》，禁止商業捕鯨，允許科研捕鯨。日本簽署這一條約，但一直以科研名義大量捕鯨，捕獲的鯨魚卻出現在日本國內市場和餐桌。

Anti-whaling activists have actively pursued and harassed the Japanese whaling fleet in years-past, which has led to a number of dangerous incidents taking place in the frigid waters of the Southern n is sending out its fleet again under the same loophole in the International Whaling Commission guidelines which allow countries to kill a number of whales every year for "scientific purposes."However, most of the whale meat ends up on store shelves, even though most people in Japan no longer eat whale meat.

日本現任政府想要恢復商業捕鯨、使其合法化，並將其作爲一個政治目標在進行。完全無視許多國家反對的聲音。日本的捕鯨船隊大多來自於西部的下關市，同時也是日本首相安倍晉三的主要選區，其醜陋的政治目的可見一斑。

Japan's current government has a stated goal of a return to commercial whaling at some point, though a majority of countries around the world object to the of Japan's whaling fleet hails from the western Japanese city of Shimonoseki, which is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's electoral district.