In this Sept. 2, 2010 file photo, fishermen drive bottle-nose dolphins into a net during their annual hunt off Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. A Japanese government spokesman defended an annual dolphin hunt Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, two days after U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy tweeted tweeted that she was deeply concerned by the inhumanity of the practice.
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TORONTO – A government spokesman has defended an annual dolphin hunt in Japan’s infamous Taiji cove after U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy said she was “deeply concerned” by the inhumanity of the practice.
In a news conference Monday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said dolphin fishing in Japan is carried out appropriately in accordance with the law.
The organization says the pods includes over 250 dolphins, the largest pod to be driven into the cove in several years. According to The Guardian, U.S. conservationists say some of the mammals will be held in permanent captivity or will be killed for meat.
The ongoing global campaign to stop the dolphin kill in Taiji garnered worldwide attention after the 2009 Academy Award-winning film about the hunt called The Cove.
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