The Japanese government whaling fleet has departed its home port of Shimonoseki, for its biggest hunt since the moratorium on commercial whaling came into being over twenty years ago.
The Japanese whaling fleet has delayed its departure to the Southern Ocean for its annual whale hunt, to avoid political embarrassment when Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and US President George W. Bush meet today in Washington D.C.
You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish - at least not in the Mediterranean Sea until stocks recover. We're calling for the complete closure of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fisheries.
