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DOLPHINS IN CAPTIVITY IN TAIJI
September 3, 2013 byMark Palmer, Save Japan Dolphins
By Tim Burns
Cove Monitor
Save Japan Dolphins
Earth Island Institute
Today the hunting boats left Taiji harbor, but due to bad weather
returned early.
The hunters transferred six dolphins from the harbor pens to Dolphin
Base, a captive facility in Taiji that trains wild dolphins, by boat/sling. A
crane hoisted the dolphins into the upper tanks. This also included a
juvenile (only his pectoral fins could be seen, as he was too small for
his tail to stick out) and another young dolphin. The other four were
adults.
One of our videographers, Melissa Thompson Esaia, shot footage of
the transfer today:
Major bummer.
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2. Transfer to Dolphin Base - September 4th, 2013 from Melissa
Thompson Esaia on Vimeo.
Two of our volunteer Cove Monitors, Karla Sanjur Campo and Jeremy
Raphael, took some photos of the dolphins being "sorted" in the Cove
yesterday, in the harbor pens today, and sunset at the Cove. This
would be a beautiful place if the dolphin killers were not present.
Yesterday, dolphin hunters in the Cove in Taiji "sorted" out bottlenose dolphins for
captivity. The rest of pod will be released, in a very strange deal between the World
Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) and the Taiji dolphin hunters, in which
no bottlenose dolphins are killed in the first month of the hunting season, to try to
separate the captures for captivity from the slaughter. Of course, other species are
fair game, and the bottlenose dolphins only have a short reprieve until the end of
the month. WAZAshould be ashamed for this clumsy deal. Photo by Jeremy
Raphael.
Just one of the many floating pens in Taiji harbor where captured wild
dolphins are turned into performing clowns for the public. Photo by
Karla Sanjur Campo.
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Video by Melissa Thompson Esaia. Photos by Karla Sanjur Campo and
Jeremy Raphael.
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