Whaling fleet sets sail for Antarctic
China Daily | Updated: 2008-11-18 07:51
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In this photo released by the environmental group Greenpeace Japan, Greenpeace members hold up a banner reading: "1.2 billion yen ($12.4 million) of tax money for whaling?" in Kamijima as Japanese whaling mother vessel Nisshin Maru departs from its home port of Innoshima yesterday. Greenpeace said Japanese whaling ships left the southwestern Japanese port yesterday en route to this season's hunt in the Antarctic Ocean. AP |
The main ship in Japan's whaling fleet set out for the Antarctic yesterday for its first hunt in the region since limping home with just over half its planned catch in April following clashes with militant anti-whaling activists, environmentalist group Greenpeace said.
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