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Chunks of meat from the first whales caught since Japan resumed commercial whaling this week fetched "celebration prices" at auction Thursday. The fresh meat sold for up to 15,000 yen ($140) per ...
In 2006, 5,560 tons of whale meat was sold for consumption. [9] In modern-day Japan, two cuts of whale meat are usually distinguished: the belly meat and the tail or fluke meat. Fluke meat can sell for $200 per kilogram, over three times the price of belly meat. [8]
In 1998–1999, Harvard researchers published their DNA identifications of samples of whale meat they obtained in the Japanese market, and found that mingled among the presumably legal (i.e. minke whale meat) was a sizeable proportion of dolphin and porpoise meats, and instances of endangered species such as fin whale and humpback whale.
Higher prices for butcher shops have translated to higher prices for customers.
The Icelandic government later stated several shipments of fish meat were incorrectly labeled as whale meat. [60] [61] Then in April, 15 Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the mooring lines of the container ship NYK Orion in Rotterdam. The action was undertaken to stop a shipment of endangered fin whale meat from Iceland, destined for ...
Conservation groups are working hard to protect what is left of the North Atlantic right whale population, and the U.S. government announced $9 million in new funding last year to help.
Whale meat captured in Norway is primarily eaten by humans. In 2014 113 metric tonnes of offal and other byproducts were sold to make animal feed for the fur industry. [34] [35] Whale meat is also used as a niche product for pet food in Norway. [36] According to opinion polls by Opinion in 2009 and 2010, about 80% of Norwegians have eaten whale ...
Because of overhunting, the blue whale population has dropped from what biologists estimate was 200,000 in the 1800s to approximately 20,000 today. They are listed as endangered by the IUCN. Their ...