New Zealand will express its ''significant disappointment'' to Japan over the country's whaling in the Southern Ocean, Prime Minister Bill English says. ''The issue has just arisen, and New Zealand will be expressing its significant disappointment about what is going on there.'' The activist group Sea Shepherd on the weekend published a photo it said showed a Japanese whaler in the Australian Whale Sanctuary with a dead minke whale on its deck. The International Court of Justice ruled against Japan's whaling operations in the Southern Ocean in 2014. New Zealand had worked for years to protect whales and engage with Japan to try and change their attitude, he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 17, 2017 00:26 UTC