Japanese whalers have resumed commercial whaling after 30 years and brought ashore a 27-foot whale, the head of the Whaling Association of Japan said: “It was worth waiting for 31 years.”
Whale catchers brought in a 27-foot whale on Monday in the Hokkaido City of Kushiro.
Yoshifumi Kai, the head of the Japan Small-Type Whaling Association, said: “Today is the best.”
He added, “We were able to catch a good whale. It’s going to be delicious.”
Kai said that “It was worth waiting for 31 years.”
The catch is the first in a commercial hunt after Japan resumed the whale catching practice after the country decided to go out of the International Whaling Commission.
During the G20 Summit last week, world leaders tried to do their best to stop Japan from making whale hunting commercial again.
Organizations called out G20 leaders to take action and stop the commercial whaling.
Last year, Japan announced that they will withdraw from the International Whaling Commission after the failure to convince the commission to allow them to make commercial whaling again.
In 1986, the International Whaling Commission banned commercial whaling, but Japan was allowed to do it for “scientific purposes”.
But, according to the International Whaling Commission said that Japan has killed around 200 to 1,200 whales per year.
Experts said that whales were used in research purposes, but the meat of the whales ended up in the markets.