Japan welcomes Greenpeace departure.

Japan welcomes Greenpeace departure.:

"Japan's Fisheries Agency has welcomed Greenpeace's decision to stop obstructing its whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.

The green group's departure follows a month of anti-whaling protests and clashes with a Japanese whaling fleet."

Someone had to protect the whales in the whale sanctuary since the people who agreed it was a sanctuary couldn't seem to do that. Greenpeace has done its bit to make us realise that the bodies which are supposed to be overseeing the protection of our waters and environment do not seem to be working at optimum capacity and there has been a bit of an implementation glytch with the policies which have allowed animals to be slaughtered in sanctuaries. In the meantime there is no reason why we can't ask companies like Sealord to stop using whale meat . It is half owned by a Japanese whaling company. We have asked other companies not to damage dolphins as they catch tuna. Now we can ask them not to use whales as they produce fish products.

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