1/23/2018
“Many countries distrust Japan, which continues to kill whales in the name of research using massive subsidies,” Nanami Kurasawa, secretary general of the Dolphin and Whale Action Network, told the Yomiuri. “The renewal of the mother ship would attract heavy criticism.” Built in 1987, the Nisshin Maru ...
1/20/2018
The Nisshin Maru was built in 1987 as a trawler, a type of ship that pulls a massive net. It was remodelled into a whaling mother ship in 1991. Whales caught by small research vessels can be pulled onto the deck of the 130-metre-long mother ship to be butchered. Up to 1,200 tonnes of whale meat can ...
Tokyo: The Fisheries Agency plans to introduce a new vessel that will replace the ageing Nisshin Maru, the 8,145-tonne mother ship of the Japanese research whaling fleet in the Antarctic and Pacific oceans. The agency plans to begin work on a basic plan in fiscal 2018 for the introduction of a new ...
It is old, aged nearly 100 in human years,” a person familiar with the research whaling program said of the 30-year-old Nisshin Maru. The person saw off the vessel as it departed with 102 people aboard from Innoshima island, Hiroshima Prefecture, last November. The ship was headed for the Antarctic ...
1/19/2018
It is old, aged nearly 100 in human years," a person familiar with the research whaling program said of the 30-year-old Nisshin Maru. The person saw off the vessel as it departed with 102 people aboard from Innoshima island, Hiroshima Prefecture, last November. The ship was headed for the Antarctic ...
The Yomiuri ShimbunThe Fisheries Agency plans to introduce a new vessel that will replace the aging Nisshin Maru, the 8,145-ton mother ship of the Japanese research whaling (see below) fleet in the Antarctic and Pacific oceans. The agency plans to begin work on a basic plan in fiscal 2018 for the ...