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In 2009, dolphin meat was taken off school menus because of the contamination. [48] The levels of mercury and methylmercury taken from samples of dolphin and whale meat sold at supermarkets most likely to be providing the schools' lunch programs was 10 times that advised by the Japanese Health Ministry. The mercury levels were so high that the ...
In November 2005, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare announced its opinion that pregnant women can consume dolphins at a frequency of approximately 80 grams per serving: up to once every two months for Common bottlenose dolphin, once every two weeks for Short-finned pilot whale, and twice a week for Dall's porpoise. At the same time ...
The Taiji dolphin drive hunt captures small cetaceans for their meat and for sale to dolphinariums. Taiji has a long connection to Japanese whaling. The 2009 documentary film The Cove drew international attention to the hunt. Taiji is the only town in Japan where drive hunting still takes place on a large scale.
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A spate of dolphin attacks on swimmers in Japan’s Fukui Prefecture is being blamed on one bottlenose dolphin, who researchers believe may be particularly lonely, having been separated from a pod.
The film follows former-dolphin-trainer-turned-activist Ric O'Barry's quest to document the dolphin hunting operations in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan.In the 1960s, O'Barry helped capture and train the five wild dolphins who shared the role of "Flipper" in the hit television series of the same name.
Injuries on the dorsal fin of the dolphin involved in the Aug. 20 attack match those of a dolphin spotted off the coast last year, said Tadamichi Morisaka, a researcher at the Cetacean Research ...
Dolphin meat is dense and such a dark shade of red as to appear black. Fat is located in a layer of blubber between the meat and the skin. When dolphin meat is eaten in Japan, it is often cut into thin strips and eaten raw as sashimi, garnished with onion and either horseradish or grated garlic, much as with sashimi of whale or horse meat ...