Action alert
-Oppose dolphin hunt in Japan!

ALIVE News 1 Sept. 2002

A former dolphin hunter is planning dolphin watching tours at Futo in Izu Peninsula, where some 70 dolphins were brutally slaughtered three years ago.

This fisherman, Mr. Ishii has been convinced that there's a better future for the local community with dolphin watching than with dolphin hunting. And his announcement of the planned tours, which was made during this year's IWC conference, was applauded by environment and animal protection groups and activists around the world.

But, the Japanese government, which controls dolphin hunting, has given fishermen in Izu and elsewhre in Shizuoka permission to catch up to 600 dolphins in fiscal 2002. And, despite the international uproar against atrocious dolphin hunting, the local fishermen are planning the hunt claiming they will kill dolphins humanely this time.

The major industry to the local people is not dolphin hunting but tourism and to continue the capture and slaughter of dolphins will hurt this business, which a lot of local people live on.

Please send your comment to the below (faxes are referable since they hate to receive them) and urge them to cancel the dolphin drive fishery at Futo and encourage them to promote dolphin watching.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Masako

on behalf of dolphins in Japan

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Futo Branch of The Ito City Fishing Cooperative
E-mail:futo@soitoshigyokyo.jf-net.ne.jp
Fax:+81-557-51-1139

Ito City Fishing Cooperative
E-mail:ito@soitoshigyokyo.jf-net.ne.jp
Fax:+81-557-35-0756

Shizuoka Prefecture, Fisheries Section
E-mail:nousei@pref.shizuoka.jp
Fax:+81-54-221-3288


The Fisheries Agency
E-mail:webmaster@jfa.go.jp
Fax:+81-3-3502-0794