> Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said commercial whaling would be restricted to Japanese territorial waters and economic zones.
> As a result, Japan will stop hunting in Antarctic waters and the southern hemisphere, a prospect conservation groups had welcomed before it was formally confirmed.
And:
> Japan offered a package of measures, including setting up a Sustainable Whaling Committee and sustainable catch limits "for abundant whale stocks/species".
> The proposal was voted down.
In other words: Japan will keep the whaling within their own territorial water, and has indeed tried getting a consensus regarding quotas for sustainable whaling. Others refused to come to terms, so Japan has decided to do their own thing.
I realise it's an unpopular opinion to have, but wouldn't regulated and sustainable whaling be better than various rogue states? It's not this is going to result in anything but criticism from other countries anyway, so blocking a desiscion on sustainable whaling will only result in others doing what Japan does.
> Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said commercial whaling would be restricted to Japanese territorial waters and economic zones.
> As a result, Japan will stop hunting in Antarctic waters and the southern hemisphere, a prospect conservation groups had welcomed before it was formally confirmed.
And:
> Japan offered a package of measures, including setting up a Sustainable Whaling Committee and sustainable catch limits "for abundant whale stocks/species".
> The proposal was voted down.
In other words: Japan will keep the whaling within their own territorial water, and has indeed tried getting a consensus regarding quotas for sustainable whaling. Others refused to come to terms, so Japan has decided to do their own thing.
I realise it's an unpopular opinion to have, but wouldn't regulated and sustainable whaling be better than various rogue states? It's not this is going to result in anything but criticism from other countries anyway, so blocking a desiscion on sustainable whaling will only result in others doing what Japan does.