The Principality of West Antarctic will Consider Japan’s Whale Hunting in the Antarctic an Act of War

Japan is thinking of resuming their whale hunting in the Antarctic Ocean and the Prince of West Antarctic, H.H Giovanni Caporaso Gottlieb, stated that he “will consider any action of whale hunting, in the territorial waters of the Principality of West Antarctic, as an act of war and will retaliate with acts of sabotage, and therefore requests international support in order to impede Japanese aggression.”
At the same time, the Principality of West Antarctic is in the process of requesting the intervention of the United Nations and the Countries of the ALBA to penalize Japan if they continue to go against international law.
The energetic reaction of the Head of government of the Principality of West Antarctic is a response to the indiscriminate slaughtering of whales by the Japanese fleet of supply ships (where they process the cetaceans) and whalers, equipped with acoustic means that severely damage human hearing. It must be remembered that while only a century ago around 200,000 blue whales were living in the Antarctic Ocean, it’s estimated that there are only around 2,300 specimens left today.
Although whale meat can be found in any specialty restaurant in Japan, its use has fallen severely in the last few years, down to 4,200 tons in 2009 from the 230,000 tons consumed in 1962.
The Japanese fleet that operates in these waters captured only 507 mammals of the 850 foreseen for “research” during the 2010 period, according to very modest attenuation in the slaughtering of the whales. It was, although difficult for them to admit, “the worst campaign in their history…”
What are the reasons? The crusade carried out in the most severe climatic conditions on board the ship “Steve Irwin” by volunteers from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international non-profit ecologist organization (ONG), whose mission is to stop the destruction of the environment and the extermination of the fauna in the world’s oceans in protected areas and to preserve the ecosystem and its species.
Japan, Iceland and Norway are the only countries in the world that continue to hunt whales, a practice that Tokyo defends as a thousand year cultural tradition, despite the fact it was abandoned in 1986 because of the international moratorium and then returned to under the guise of a “research program”.
“We intend to keep on supporting our country’s way of thinking,” the Japanese Minister of Agriculture and Fishing, Michihiko Kano told the local Kyodo agency, in reference to those countries and ecology groups that accuse Japan of covering up commercial whale hunting under the guise of “capturing for scientific ends” to which H.H. Giovanni Caporaso Gottlieb has responded with an energetic condemnation and “with the adoption of all necessary means” to call a halt to whale hunting.