Japan's dolphin slaughter resumes despite protests
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The controversial dolphin hunting season has begun again in the infamous Japanese village of Taiji, CNN reports.
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This image was one of the many taken on January 17th, 2014 when the Taiji fishermen drove in a massive pod of bottlenose dolphins into the Cove. [Photo/Sea Shepherd] |
In Taiji, a small town in Wakayama Prefecture with a population of 3,500, hundreds to thousands of dolphins and small whales are captured and killed each year during the annual dolphin drive hunt.
For a staggering six months of every year -- September 1st until March -- a group of dolphin hunters herd wild dolphins from the ocean’s open waters into a hidden shallow bay, now infamously known around the world as the cove, according to Sea Shepherd.
The hunters capture entire families, or pods, of various species of dolphins at a time in order to satisfy the international demand for captive dolphins in the entertainment industry.
Those taken captive are sent to aquariums and marine parks worldwide. The remaining dolphins are killed by a hunting technique known as "pithing," which leaves the still conscious dolphins paralyzed and often drowning in the blood of their own family members.
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