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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are an enormous list of things that are
"not necessary for human life" and I don't think that you really want to see
arbitrary groups of extremists start to decide what they are and deprive
you of them. If it's determined that enough whales exist to support managed
hunting and there are people willing to risk their lives to hunt them all I can
say is watch out Shamu and bon appetite.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wo tanoshinde kudasai!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>g</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=megan@meganpru.com href="mailto:megan@meganpru.com">Megan
Prusynski</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:23
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Whaling Ship
Goes Home Early</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Over 350 whales saved? That's a big victory in my book. :) YAY!
Thanks for sharing this good news.
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<DIV>Can't really agree with all of the Sea Shepherd's tactics but last time I
checked, whale meat was not a necessity for human life (unless you call heart
attacks and cholesterol necessities), nor is killing whales necessary for
studying them. That excuse is a whole bunch of baloney. Let's hope Japan
realizes this soon and ceases whaling altogether. </DIV>
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<DIV>peace,</DIV>
<DIV>~megan</DIV>
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<DIV>On Mar 1, 2007, at 12:37 AM, <A
href="mailto:vision2020-request@moscow.com">vision2020-request@moscow.com</A>
wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Thought this was interesting....comments?</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer Wed Feb 28, 2:02 PM
ET</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>TOKYO - A Japanese whaling fleet is heading home after high-seas<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>brinksmanship with environmental groups and a deadly fire that
crippled its<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>mother ship and ended the hunt in the Antarctic hundreds of whales
short of<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>its goal.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>The return of the six-ship fleet brought to an early end this year's
hunt,<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>which had been scheduled to continue through March. Officials said it
was<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>the first time in the 20 years since the scientific hunts began that
one had<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>to end early.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>"We are very disappointed," Takahide Naruko, the head of the
Fisheries<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Agency's Far Seas Division, said Wednesday.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Officials also lodged a strong protest over "vicious and reckless"
attempts<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>by whaling opponents to sabotage the hunt, which killed 508 whales
out of a<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>target of 860.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>The fire aboard the Nisshin Maru two weeks ago killed one crew member
and<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>left the vessel unable to sail under its own power for 10 days,
prompting<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>protests from New Zealand and from the environmental group Greenpeace
over<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>potential oil and chemical spills or damage to penguin
colonies.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Naruko said the cause of the fire was under investigation. He said
the<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Nisshin Maru would likely be repaired in time for the next hunt, in
the<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>northwest Pacific in May, when Japan plans to kill 350
whales.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>The fleet is part of a scientific whaling program that Japan says
provides<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>crucial data for the</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>International Whaling Commission — which allows the hunts — on
populations,<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>feeding habits and distribution of the mammals.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>But the program has long been the target of environmental groups,
which say<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>it is a pretext for Japan to keep its whalers afloat despite an<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>international ban on commercial whaling imposed by the International
Whaling<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Commission in 1986.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>After researchers complete their studies of the killed whales, the
meat is<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>sold in Japan for food. Naruko said that although the number of
whales<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>killed fell short of the target, it was sufficient to conduct some
research<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>and to distribute for sale.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>"I don't think there will be a significant increase in the cost of
whale<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>meat," he said.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Profits from the sales help fund the research program.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Japan has been increasingly strident in its calls for a lifting of
the<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>commercial whaling ban. This month, it hosted a conference of
whaling<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>supporters and issued a stinging rebuke of dozens of anti-whaling
nations<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>that stayed away, saying their absence would prevent
reforms.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Tokyo maintains that whaling is a national tradition and a vital part
of its<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>food culture, and argues that whale stocks have sufficiently
recovered since<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>1986 to allow a resumption of limited hunts of certain
species.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>But Greenpeace and other environmental groups say lifting the ban
would open<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>the door to excessive kills, and that research could be done without
killing<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>whales.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>This year's protests, led by the Sea Shepherd group, were
particularly<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>heated.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Japanese officials on Tuesday showed videos of protesters aboard a
Sea<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Shepherd ship — flying a skull-and-crossbones pirate flag — launching
smoke<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>canisters, throwing containers filled with chemicals, and dropping
ropes and<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>nets to try to entangle the ships' propellors.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>One video also showed a protest ship ramming a whaling
vessel.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>"Such vicious and reckless actions by the Sea Shepherd not only
violate the<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>international agreements established in order to prohibit piracy
and<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>guarantee the safety of navigation, they are inexcusable criminal
acts,"<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>said Hiroshi Hatanaka, head of the Institute of Cetacean Research,
which is<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>in charge of the hunts.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said Monday that the Nisshin
Maru —<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>carrying 343,000 gallons of fuel oil — posed a huge risk to the
pristine<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Antarctic environment and called the fire a "disaster." Greenpeace
offered<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>to tow the ship into calmer seas.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>The whalers declined the offer.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>Japanese officials stress that no oil has leaked from the ship and
said it<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>safely moved away from the Antarctic coast under its own power last
weekend.</FONT></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MIN-HEIGHT: 13px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 11px Helvetica"><BR></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 11px Helvetica" face=Helvetica
size=3>J<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space>
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