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PETITION!
From
Dolphin Hunting to Dolphin Watching
against the drive fishery/killing & Capturing of Dolphins
To
the heads of the Ito City Fishing Cooperative and
its Futo Branch and all the persons concerned
Dolphin Watching
was started by an active fisherman at Futo,
where the drive fishery has been carried out. I/We
request the Ito City Fishing Cooperative and its
Futo Branch to stop the drive hunt of dolphins and, instead,
to support the dolphin watching.
Criticism has increasingly arisen worldwide not only against killing and
slaughter of dolphins in drives, but also against their capture to sell
to the aquarium industry, for research on dolphin ecology in recent years
is showing that the very act of capturing dolphins and keeping them in
tanks is cruelty to animals.
Drive fisheries, killing and capturing dolphins, greatly harm the image
of Ito-city, which is a tourism and hot-spring recreation city with scenic
beauty. Continuing the drive hunts will bring Ito city global criticism
as a "wild animal consumer" that profits financially from them.
I/We sincerely request the Ito City Fishing Cooperative and its Futo Branch
to stop drive hunts, killing and capturing dolphins, and switch to dolphin
watching which is a positive action to coexist with dolphins.
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 To
the heads of the Japanese Government, the Fisheries
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To
the heads of the Ito City Fishing Cooperative
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2002.9.3
Elsa Nature Conservancy
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