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A pod of Rissos dolphins have been driven into the cove - Taiji, Japan
January 29, 2017 – Risso‘s Dolphins Slaughter – Taiji, Japan
At 6.35am this morning the banger boats left the harbour in their daily pursuit for a pod of dolphins they could exploit and destroy for profit. By 7.20 the fleet of 11 banger boats was already in formation, with streams of black smoke billowing on the horizon. A small pod of about 12-15 Risso's dolphins was driven into the cove, and netted off without a hope for escape or survival.
The dolphins were quickly and meticulously driven towards the killing beach, shielded from our view by tarps. We spotted a dolphin on the outside of the net, and divers expertly converged on this poor soul, desperately tail-slapping and throwing its body into the rock face in a bid to escape its violent captors. The divers wrestled this dolphin into the inner net and its shallow waters, and the killing beach beyond where we could hear this small family unit fighting for their lives in their final moments.
The slaughter was over by 8.45am when 3 skiffs departed for the slaughterhouse, several dolphins hidden beneath tarps, their lives stolen from them, seen by their killers as nothing more than a mere byproduct of the captivity industry.
These slaughters alone do not fuel the dolphin drive hunts in Taiji, the profit lies in live captive dolphins. The price of dolphin meat pales in comparison to the price of a trained dolphin in a marine park. However, these Risso's dolphins are destined to be packaged and sold for their meat, an entire family decimated in under an hour. This morning these dolphins swam free on their migratory route past Taiji, now their lifeless bodies lie still in the slaughterhouse. We will not forget the lives lost today in this abhorrent act of government sanctioned cruelty. We will not let their voices go unheard.
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd
A pod of Rissos dolphins have been driven into the cove - Taiji, Japan
January 29, 2017 – Risso‘s Dolphins Slaughter – Taiji, Japan
At 6.35am this morning the banger boats left the harbour in their daily pursuit for a pod of dolphins they could exploit and destroy for profit. By 7.20 the fleet of 11 banger boats was already in formation, with streams of black smoke billowing on the horizon. A small pod of about 12-15 Risso's dolphins was driven into the cove, and netted off without a hope for escape or survival.
The dolphins were quickly and meticulously driven towards the killing beach, shielded from our view by tarps. We spotted a dolphin on the outside of the net, and divers expertly converged on this poor soul, desperately tail-slapping and throwing its body into the rock face in a bid to escape its violent captors. The divers wrestled this dolphin into the inner net and its shallow waters, and the killing beach beyond where we could hear this small family unit fighting for their lives in their final moments.
The slaughter was over by 8.45am when 3 skiffs departed for the slaughterhouse, several dolphins hidden beneath tarps, their lives stolen from them, seen by their killers as nothing more than a mere byproduct of the captivity industry.
These slaughters alone do not fuel the dolphin drive hunts in Taiji, the profit lies in live captive dolphins. The price of dolphin meat pales in comparison to the price of a trained dolphin in a marine park. However, these Risso's dolphins are destined to be packaged and sold for their meat, an entire family decimated in under an hour. This morning these dolphins swam free on their migratory route past Taiji, now their lifeless bodies lie still in the slaughterhouse. We will not forget the lives lost today in this abhorrent act of government sanctioned cruelty. We will not let their voices go unheard.
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd