Porpoise Hunt
Porpoise Hunt
Clip: 350671_1_1
Year Shot: 1950
(Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1547
Original Film: 023-361-04
HD: N/A
Location: Japan
Timecode: 00:03:38 - 00:04:29
Porpoise Hunt Japan is hunting its coastal cetacean populations to extinction. Hundreds of boats are licensed to kill porpoises and use specialized equipment. They have severely depleted, in sequence, populations of striped dolphins, pilot whales, beaked whales, and Dall's porpoise.