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Originally Posted by Columbine
Belated, and I really should be quoting Misa here, but this is exactly what they've done in Africa and parts of S. America, turning poachers into game-keepers and trackers.
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That's good. I wonder why they can't do the same in Japan. To the fishermen's credit though, they are not poachers. It is not illegal to hunt dolphins.
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Originally Posted by Columbine
Also it could just be the type and location of the dolphins being consumed.
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OK. This seems to be more of the case than anything else. Mercury concentration varies depending largely on the species.
http://www.mhlw.go.jp/topics/bukyoku...50812-1-05.pdf
Some "whale" like マッコウクジラ has more concentration of mercury(ave. 0.7μg/g) than some "dolphin" like イシイルカ(ave.0.370μg/g). It is very high in バンドウイルカ (6.622μg/g. This is THE dolphin we usually think of), but Taichi isn't killing this species for meat.
http://sankei.jp.msn.com/life/trend/...2108010-n1.htm
Anyway, my point was it is not true that dolphin meat is labeled as whale so people think it has less mercury.