Last year, 937 dolphins died from this hunting, and the Japanesse fishing agency authorized the hunting of 1873 animals as a maximum.
Yesterday, a new hunting season was open in Taiji, Japan. At least twelve hunting ships of the local cooperative left the port in the morning, but they didn’t hunt anything .
The dolphins and small cetaceans caught in Taiji by a traditional method invented in this town, in which several boats create a wall of sound that pushes the dolphins to the bay, which are selected and then harpooned.
