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50 Minke whales captured to study fish hunting patterns
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/421257
JAPAN TODAY Friday, November 9, 2007
In the last couple of years there has been a huge advertising drive throughout to increase the consumption of whale meat and reduce the massive stocks of frozen whale meat. The future of whaling research was even thrown into doubt by the overload.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/gourmet/news/20060905gr01.htm?from=os1
If you read this article (you seem to be fluent in Japanese) you'll see that Japanese people ate 2,000 gm of whale meat a year 40 years ago, but by 2005 that had fallen to just 50 grams.
ところが、消費の方は思うように伸びず、１９８２年に国際捕鯨委員会（ＩＷＣ）が商業捕鯨の一時禁止（モラトリアム）を決議し、日本は８８年から商業捕鯨を取りやめたため、一人当たりの鯨肉消費量は、４０年前の約２０００グラムから０５年は約５０グラムまで落ち込んだ。
At the same time the amount of frozen stock has been increasing, so this popularity drive in the name of 'healthy eating' etc. has taken place.
The chart on the right shows how much frozen stock they are stuck with.
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