11/09/2009
hundred bottle-nosed dolphins and 50 pilot whales are the rich spoils of the first fishing trip of the season, officially started in Japan on September 1 and unveiled yesterday in the bay 'massacre' of Taiji, a coastal city south of Osaka.
The prefecture of Wakayama, is located in the city, said that the hundred dolphins caught, the 40 or 50 most beautiful examples will be sold to aquariums, while others will be released again into the sea.
The whale meat, however, will be sold to fish markets for consumption. Accompanying fishing there have been protests and clashes between the defenders of the animals and fishermen of the city, exacerbated this year by the success of the documentary film of the two directors and Louie Psihoyos Richard O'Barry (The Cove, 'the bay'), presented and awarded the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the USA.
After trying in vain to obtain the authorization of the town of Taiji, the two directors have filmed with hidden cameras on the bottom of the bay. In this way they managed to take back and forward with great realism, the horror of the sea painted red after the massacre. Read the full article
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