Japan has defended its practice of 'scientific' whale hunting at the annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Chile, insisting it had yielded important scientific results.
Officials from Japan, which is pressing for the ban on commercial whaling to be lifted, said during the third day of the meeting in Santiago that their research has shown that whales are healthy and abundant. They said that when they slashed open the chest cavity the whales possesed healthy hearts and each carried an abundant amount of edible flesh ripe for the taking and destined for restaurants across Japan.
Researchers at Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research say they have discovered interesting information on the sexual maturation of whale species which they said could not have been obtained in any other way. For example, they have found that male whales that have reached sexual maturation have tastier testicles.
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