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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 ...
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 ...
[17] [18] The dolphin meat was presented along with burdock root, and it has been suggested that the meat may have been boiled in miso, as it is today. [ 19 ] Around 1563, the Katsurayama clan, who lived in Katsurayama (present-day Shizuoka Prefecture), gave written instructions that if dolphins came to the cove, gather people to capture them.
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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.
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 ...
Whales have been hunted for meat in Japan since before 800 AD. After World War II, due to damage to Japan's infrastructure, whale meat became an important source of proteins. [22] [23] [24] In modern-day Japan, two cuts of whale meat are usually created: the belly meat and the tail meat. In the early 19th century, 70 different cuts were known. [22]
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.