Dolphins are mostly captured for their meat.This comes after another highly debated issue concerning the fact that Taiji,in Japan,is hoping to expand its school lunch programmes to include dolphin and whale meat.
The largest amount of dolpins are hunted in Japan.Plastic bags and hunting nets kill about 100,000 dolphins per year.
Bottle nose,Striped,Spotted,Risso's dolphins are mostly endangered.In 2004 according to the Japanese government, 544 Striped dolphins,475 Bottle nose dolphins,437 Risso's dolphins and 63 southern short finned pilot whales were captured in drive hunts,for a total of 1537 animals.
After capturing the dolphins,on the following day,the dolphins are caught one by one and killed. The killing of the animals used to be done by slitting their throats,but the Japanese goverment band this method and now dolphins may officialy only be killed by driving a metal pin into the neck of the dolphin which causes them to die within seconds.
The largest amount of dolpins are hunted in Japan.Plastic bags and hunting nets kill about 100,000 dolphins per year.
Bottle nose,Striped,Spotted,Risso's dolphins are mostly endangered.In 2004 according to the Japanese government, 544 Striped dolphins,475 Bottle nose dolphins,437 Risso's dolphins and 63 southern short finned pilot whales were captured in drive hunts,for a total of 1537 animals.
After capturing the dolphins,on the following day,the dolphins are caught one by one and killed. The killing of the animals used to be done by slitting their throats,but the Japanese goverment band this method and now dolphins may officialy only be killed by driving a metal pin into the neck of the dolphin which causes them to die within seconds.
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