Canada’s Trudeau raps Japan PM on whale hunt 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday took issue with Japan’s plan to resume commercial whaling in a telephone call with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe. The commercial hunts, however, would be limited to Japan’s territorial waters, said a top Japanese government spokesman. And Japan will not be able to continue so-called scientific research hunts in the Antarctic and elsewhere that it has been exceptionally allowed as an IWC member. The IWC, established in 1946 to conserve and manage the world’s whale and cetacean population, introduced a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.

Source: Manila Bulletin January 09, 2019 01:52 UTC