Japanese ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
SENDAI (Kyodo) -- A commercial whaling ship returned to a port in northeastern Japan on Monday carrying 25 fin whales taken in the Sea of Okhotsk. The fin whale hunt in Japan's exclusive economic zone, north of the northern island of Hokkaido, was conducted for the first time since Japan formally withdrew from the International Whaling Commission in 2019.
About 320 metric tons of fin whale meat were unloaded at Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, with some 1.6 tons set to be transported to six markets across the country including Tokyo and Osaka as raw meat. The ship departed Shimonoseki port in the western Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi on April 21.
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