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"Whalers cited "violent interference" and other clashes lasting 31 days with Sea Shepherd as "paralyzing" the hunt. Takashi Mori of Japan's Fisheries Ministry added, "The lack of samples could affect the accuracy of our research." According to Sea Shepherd calculations, their efforts cost Japan's whaling fleeting about $132 million, as the average value of each whale is a quarter of a million dollars. The same estimates show that this season the fleet lost money, as 700 whales need to be killed to meet operating expenses."

A Greenpeace activist tells how she and 9 others blocked the departure of a Japanese container ship with 160 tons of endangered fin whale meat onboard.

"Genetic analysis of samples from sushi restaurants in the U.S. and Korea suggest that these two countries are illegally receiving whale meat from Japan, according to a study in Biology Letters."

"Our paper is the first to publish accurate measurements for whale sharks in the field," says PhD candidate Christoph Rohner. "Other researchers have previously tried to measure the sharks with a tape measure, or by visually estimating size, which is obviously difficult to do accurately," he explains.