PUBLIC MEDIA DEMANDS OCEAN LAWS BE STRICTER

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International ocean governance, PUBLIC MEDIA POLLS DEMAND OCEAN LAW ENFORCED THRU INCREASE OF PATROL VESSELS

International ocean governance NOW

http://freerussianwhales.org/en/

We need political leaders who will assume responsibility for ensuring law enforcement agencies have the resources and authority to carry out their responsibilities. Those agencies must ensure they are doing what the law was intended to do.

Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2019/02/no-new-laws-enforcing-ones-we-have/#ixzz5gwpAlSXB 
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Implementation is the Hard Part

That process, accomplished out of the public spotlight, is a whole lot harder than holding press conferences and passing new laws. Successful implementation of laws and continuing oversight does not make news. Lax, inadequate, misfocused or neglected enforcement does make news in the form of tragic incidents.

Implementation is the Hard Part

That process, accomplished out of the public spotlight, is a whole lot harder than holding press conferences and passing new laws. Successful implementation of laws and continuing oversight does not make news. Lax, inadequate, misfocused or neglected enforcement does make news in the form of tragic incidents.

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Register to Vote | DoSomething.org

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.gov disfunction, .govmisfunction, 1life, 1ocean, 4fish, animalrights, dolphinslaughters, helpthem, register, whaleextinctions

When or where do other countries get to register and vote ?

https://vote.dosomething.org/?r=campaignID:8017,campaignRunID:8022,source:web,source_details:hellobar_ashes

11 Facts about Dolphin Hunts

Welcome to DoSomething.org, a global movement of 6 million young people making positive change, online and off! The 11 facts you want are below, and the sources for the facts are at the very bottom of the page. After you learn something, Do Something! Find out how to take action here.

1. “Drive hunts” are when dolphins and small whales at sea are herded by boats into a cove area where they are either killed or selected alive for sale to marine parks and aquaria across the globe.
2. The Japanese hunts are the biggest single slaughter of whales and dolphins in the world involving drive and hand-held harpoon hunts.
3. It has been documented that some dolphins have taken more than thirty minutes to die.
4. In Japan, curtains are pulled across the shoreline to hide the killing process from the public. Conservationists work to protect endangered and hunted species like dolphins. Send them thank you cards to thank them for their work. Sign up for Wildlife Cards.
5. In the cove at Taiji in Japan, some of the dolphins rounded up are selected for use in dolphin shows but many die of shock before they make it to waiting transport.

Send thank you cards to rangers who protect endangered species.

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6. Japanese ‘drive hunts’ kill nearly 20,000 dolphins, porpoises and small whales every year.
7. Commercial whaling was outlawed in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission, but dolphin hunts remain legal.
8. The dolphin hunters make approximately $32,000 USD for each live dolphin they capture. These figures can skyrocket from $32,000 USD up to $250,000 USD for a trained captive dolphin.
9. In the wild, dolphins can live into their 40s and 50s―some have been documented to be more than 90 years old. But more than 80 percent of captive dolphins whose ages could be determined died before they turned 20.
10. In 2009 The Cove, a documentary on dolphin hunting in Japan won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film brought international attention to the issue of dolphin hunting.
11. Dolphin meat is sold in stores throughout Japan. What is never included on the label are the levels of mercury, methyl mercury, cadmium, DDT and PCBs. One or more of these contaminants pollute almost all of the dolphin meat for sale in Japan.

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Whale Wars – Google Search

Animal Planet teams up with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to present this seafaring chronicle of activists dedicated to interfering with Japanese whaling expeditions. The Sea Shepherds are led by Captain Paul Watson, who, in 1977, founded the non-profit organization to protect marine wildlife and their habitats worldwide. The Japanese say that their whaling is legally accepted research, but the Sea Shepherds say it is just a cover for illegal commercial whaling. The show’s theme song is composed by Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan.

Theme song: Bullet with Butterfly Wings

Bullet with Butterfly Wings

https://www.google.ca/search?safe=active&client=tablet-android-samsung&q=Whale+Wars&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3MCwxzctT4gIxTSotjMtLtIQck0vyi0LyQ8Ic81J888syU4sB4sjlhy0AAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipkOWLhtfbAhVGR6wKHRvCDzMQxA0IgAEwFA&biw=768&bih=1024

S07 E01 · The Devil’s Den
Jan. 2, 2015 • Season 7
Peter takes the lead as The Sea Shepard launches its 10th anti-whaling campaign in the Antarctic; One misstep could cause hundreds of whales to lose their lives.

S07 E02 · Fight to the Death
Jan. 2, 2015 • Season 7
With Japanese harpoon ships approaching, Peter finds himself losing control as a storm threatens and crew members defy his orders.

S07 E03 · The Darkest Hour
Jan. 2, 2015 • Season 7
The whaling battle ignites as The Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon ship collide; Sea Shepard can only track the whaling fleet by helicopter.

A Sea Shepherd Documentary Created By Two Unlikely Partners

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https://www.fastcompany.com/40485337/a-sea-shepherd-documentary-created-by-two-unlikely-partners

Article on Whale Defense ■ 2018

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https://www.whaledefence.org/

THE ISSUE

Despite a global moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, Japan has been killing whales in the Southern Ocean in the name of “scientific research” since 1987.

In 2008, the Federal Court of Australia deemed Japan’s whaling illegal, yet despite this, their whaling fleet headed south that year without any prosecution from the Australian Government.

In 2014, the Governments of Australia and New Zealand took the Government of Japan to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Netherlands where their Southern Ocean Whale hunt was deemed illegal.

The Japanese Government continues to send their whaling fleet to the Southern Ocean each Austral summer, with a redesigned program and self-imposed quota to kill 333 protected Minke whales each year.

Ocean Poachers

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Check out @EcoWatch’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/EcoWatch/status/976509319406645250?s=09

Now you can watch every large fishing boat in the ocean (and a few illegal ones, too) – Vox

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Illegal, Monitor, OneOcean, vox

Every day, tens of thousands of large fishing boats scour the ocean in search of seafood. And some of them end up fishing illegally, sneaking into areas where they’re not supposed to go.

https://www.vox.com/2016/9/16/12940708/global-fishing-watch

Beautiful Souls

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Montauk Shark mates

The ocean…so vast, so mysterious, so…necessary. Our world’s biggest bodies of water play an integral part in the earth’s ecosystem as well as our own health, so it’s important to continue conservation efforts and promote new ones.

With this in mind, it makes sense for us to celebrate World Oceans Day in June. But don’t worry, if you missed it, there’s still plenty you can do to pay homage to the oceans for the years to come. Here are eight facts about the oceans and how they are integral to your health…

1. Oceans Soak in Greenhouse Gases

According to the website Love to Know, the oceans play a big part in the war against climate change. The source explains that the vegetation in the sea “holds a largequantity of the excess greenhouse gases that humans produce, and that global climate change would be significantly worse otherwise”.

However, the same article warns that the rate in which humans are producing carbon emissions may outpace how much the oceans can absorb. Apparently the amount of carbon dioxide taken into the oceans has dropped proportionately by 10-percent each year since 2000, adds Love to Know.

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Feel the Souls

A Whale Shark hangs on divers hugs.

Blue Fin Tuna

Check out @businessinsider’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/905545441554694150?s=09