The whaling ships have a permit to catch 227 minke, Bryde's and sei
whales this year in Japanese waters.
The mother boat Nisshin-maru and two support boats that used to go to the Antarctic will travel as far as the 200 nautical mile EEZ to catch minke, Bryde's and sei
whales. Five other smaller ships will stay closer to the coast but also hunt minkes, in addition to Baird's beaked
whales and dolphins that they used to catch under an IWC loophole.
All cetacean species are protected under Sindh and Balochistan laws and all
whales fall in the Appendix 1 category of the Convention on InternatioAnal Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
However, according to initial analysis and evidence, it seems like the
whale collided with a ship and was injured, he added.
The other two are blue
whale and Arabian humpback
whale.There are a few records of the presence of Bryde's
whale in Pakistan which are mainly based on the beached carcasses.
"The story of how the skeleton of the
whale came to the National Museum began in 1994, when a report from Porferio de Guzman of Barangay Buangan, Torrijos, Marinduque regarding a sperm
whale found on the beach there was received.
He said he was gearing up "as a matter of course" to resume commercial whaling of minke
whales --protected under the treaty--once Tokyo formally leaves the IWC in June.
Shoji's firm annually harpoons 26 giant beaked
whales - a type not covered by the IWC but subject to domestic Japanese quotas - and lands them at Wada port, one of the country's five bases for coastal whaling.
Recently, the story of the plight of North Atlantic right
whales has been circulating in newspapers, social media, and television news stories.
The proposal, designed to limit hunting to minke and other numerically abundant
whales, was approved by 27 nations but opposed by 41.