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Originally Posted by RKitagawa
It's because of the money. It's like... a billion dollar industry or something. They sell the dolphins to people who want to train them for dolphin shows at aquariums. And then the ones that aren't sold are killed for their meat. Only, they label it as whale meat. Cause dolphin has toxic amounts of mercury. (This is just what I know from watching th cove, and I have no idea how much of it is true, or how biased it is.)
I do think that the movie is probably quite biased, but still quite educational, and worth the watch.
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That is downright incorrect to say the least. As I said, Taichi earns about $3 million per year. It is a very small town and they kill about 1600 a year. Most of the small whales are killed in other areas of Japan with other methods.
http://kokushi.job.affrc.go.jp/H20/H20_45.html
And biologically there is no difference between dolphins and whales. We, humans, call smaller whales dolphins. There is no conceivable reason for smaller whales to accumulate more mercury. If anything, I'd guess it'd be the other way around.