PERU fishing with guts to report…
Deputy Juan Morano (DC), President of the Commission of Extreme Zones of the Chamber of Deputies, said that this instance has been scheduled for Wednesday April 1st a broad debate the new Japanese whaling program in AntarcticaInviting the representatives of the Center for Cetacean Conservation, Elsa Cabrera and Barbara Galletti, and the Director of Ecoceanos, Juan Carlos Cárdenas, who will talk about the risks of the new whaling program (NEWREP-A), Driven by the Japanese nation, for "Scientific whaling" Watching in the white continent.
In this regard, Deputy Morano said "It there is much controversy regarding the new program whaling research driven by Japan in the Chilean Antarctic, after March 2014 ruling of the International Court of Justice ruled that the so-called 'scientific whaling' Whale of Japan in Antarctica was illegal ".
In that vein, Congressman stated that "In the commission there is concern about this new program of 'scientific whaling' who wants to carry out Japan as a history of experts who argue that it is not necessary to kill the cetacean species to obtain information about them. Japan has justified the killing of whales argued that the only way to know your age, your eating habits and for this we have invited these experts to clear up doubts and questions about the 'scientific whaling' '.
In addition, the legislator recalled that "The waters around Antarctica in 1994 were declared 'Southern Ocean Sanctuary' by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), declaring this land as a 'safe haven' for whales, where commercial hunting is not allowed, because this area is used by many species of whales as feeding, but unfortunately this does not work for 'scientific whaling' that is still carried out in these waters. "
SOURCE: Aqua.cl
