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A Japanese fleet will set sail on Sunday on its largest ever whaling program in the South Pacific that will break a moratorium on hunting the famed humpback whale for the first time since 1963, the country's Fisheries Agency said on Saturday.
The ships, led by the 8030-tonne Nisshin Maru, will depart the southern port of Shimonoseki on Sunday morning, the agency said in a release.
The whaling fleet has orders to kill up to 50 humpbacks - the first known large-scale hunt for the whales since a 1963 moratorium put them under international protection.
They also aim to take up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales, according to a report Japan submitted to the International Whaling Commission earlier this year.
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The ships, led by the 8030-tonne Nisshin Maru, will depart the southern port of Shimonoseki on Sunday morning, the agency said in a release.
The whaling fleet has orders to kill up to 50 humpbacks - the first known large-scale hunt for the whales since a 1963 moratorium put them under international protection.
They also aim to take up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales, according to a report Japan submitted to the International Whaling Commission earlier this year.
http://search.smh.com.au/siteSearch.ac?q=whales&ss=smh
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