Workers butcher a 10-ton (11-ton) Baird's Beaked Whale at Wada Port in Chiba Prefecture, Japan in this June 21, 2007 file photo. Japan's foreign minister Masahiko Koumuraon said Friday he wanted to discuss whaling with his Australian counterpart after Canberra said it would send a fisheries patrol ship to shadow Tokyo's whaling fleet near Antarctica. [Agencies]