Global News - November 2007
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Japan urged to recall humpback whaling fleet
Mon 19 November 2007 18:00 UK — Asia,Marine Wildlife
Japan's decision to launch a hunt for humpback whales has been criticised, with both the Australia and New Zealand's government calling on the Japanese government to recall the research fleet.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark criticised the fleet's decision to set sail, claiming that the description that the whaling was purely for research purposes was "deception".
While the Australian government expressed its disappointment over the whaling mission, the Guardian reported that the UK government is considering making a diplomatic protest to Japan.
In a television interview, the New Zealand premier Ms Clark said: "We don't like the Japanese whaling fleet being down there at all."
"It would just be better if the Japanese stayed home and didn't come down under the guise, the deception, the claim that it is scientific whaling when they want to take a thousand whales," she added.
There have been no humpback whales killed by whaling parties since the species' protection in 1963, though the Guardian reported that Japan has killed almost 10,500 other species of the marine mammals since a blanket ban on commercial whaling was introduced in 1986.
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