Japan to resume scientific whaling

Q.  Which country has made the decision to resume whaling in the Antarctic ocean by March 2016?
- Published on 30 Nov 15

a. China
b. Japan
c. Singapore
d. Malaysia

ANSWER: Japan
 
Japan has taken the decision to resume whaling in the Antarctic Ocean by March end. By March 2014, ICJ had ruled that Japan’s decades old whale hunt in the Antarctic should stop. Japan fisheries agency has notified the International Whaling Commission on 27th November 2015 that Japan will resume whaling under the revised plan in the 2015/2016 season. Plan has also made the decision to cut annual minke whale catches by two thirds to 333. Scientific whaling in Japan commenced in 1987.

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