Whaling costs Japan taxpayers $10mn: pressure group
- Published: 5 Feb 2013 at 19.44
- Online news: Asia
Japan's whaling programme costs taxpayers $10 million a year, a pressure group said Tuesday, as it demanded an end to the "dying industry".
An image released on February 7, 2008 by the Australian Customs Service shows a whale being dragged on board a Japanese ship after being harpooned in Antarctic waters.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare said money raised from the sale of whale meat falls far short of the cost of running and maintaining the fleet that hunts the mammals in the Southern Ocean.
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