Orca capturing in Taiji Japan

More Details; http://sha-chi.jp/
1997, In Taiji town, pacific coastal Japan. 10 Orcas were driven to Hatajiri cove and 5 of them were captured and sold to 3 Aquariums. Government gave fishermen captureing permission as "Academic Purpose". Now, 10 year after this eragedy, another orca capturing plan are underway.
名古屋港の「クーちゃん」とシーパラダイスの「アスカ」は10年前このようにして捕獲されました。

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• orca
• capture
• Taiji
• whaling
• killer
• whale
• シャチ
• オルカ
• 水族館

[Jordan2000son]

oh my god, how come i was blind! not knowing this is happening! this is animal cruelty! that's not fair! they were defenseless!

the kids couldn't even experience their home!

i guess the tsunami (i'm not going too far with this!) had to teach the people who are doing so much harm to other families that never even had a chance!

japan fame, FAIL! orca pain, DESERVES BETTER LIVES!

ORCAS WIN BITCH!!!

[Nightroid]

@Jordan2000son  you are right

[SanfranciscoUB]

Japanese every year kill over 1000 whales to eat and maybe hundreds of dolphins to eat but americans europeans have killed more than 1 million middle easterners to get their oil to drive their cars. So at this moment the greed balance is less for japan and more for westerners.

[Jordan2000son]

@jin54363 the chinese and westerners are no different, they can get fucked too!

[jin54363]

@Jordan2000son

let me ask you something, how can this animal cruelty, when westerners used to hunt whales for their oil for money? these people killed this orca for food, one whale can feed the entire taiji, they don't waste it, and they buried the animal in a special shrine to pay respect to it, so if you think this is animal cruelty, it is not compared to what chinese do in china to skin their animals alive.

[pacificgirl89]

@epolarorca May I use this? I will credit you.

[ccnlmarisol]

what happened to the other five? did they kill them like the do with the dolphins? :'(

[SheWhoFeels]

@ALoveForOrcas: Try sending a private message sweetheart. <3 The uploader may not watch all the comments.

[ALoveForOrcas]

Can i please borrow some of your footage?

[visor0024]

I have heard those killer whales taken in 1997 were first sighted ones in many years.

Then still they took them.

And plan for another capture?

That's really disturbing and uncivilized.

At least study them and find out how many animals are still left in your own water before even thinking about capture for god's sake.

[visor0024]

Many killer whale populations are consist of low hundreds, even dozens animal, which make them very susceptible to even small scale capture.

Many, if not all, killer whale populations off pacific northwest probably are devastated because of hunting by Japanese.

And considering their slow reproduction rate, still their numbers would be far from pre-hunting numbers.