Japan halts humpback hunt
(AP)
|
|
A humpback whale jumps out of the waters off Hawaii in this photo, date unknown. Japan is dropping its much-criticized plan to kill protected humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, a media report said Friday Dec. 21, 2007. The Kyodo News agency report came hours after public broadcaster NHK said the government was considering a deal for Japan to remove humpbacks from its planned harvest of more than 1,000 whales this season in the South Pacific. Commercial hunts of humpbacks have been banned worldwide since 1966. (AP Photo/NOAA Fisheries)
AP - Humpback whales are safe at least for now. |
|
|