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David @ Tokyo

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12/04/2006

 

Another whale meat stockpile graph

The October figures for the Japanese frozen whale meat stockpiles should become available on the ministry's web page within the next week or so, but in the meantime I tried summing the figures up based on a plain old January - December basis. Here's the graph:

Whale meat consumption in Japan is certainly on the increase.

We will only see consumption in 2006 outstrip the incoming stock volume if increases in the final 3 months of the year turn out to be significantly higher than compared to 2005, but considering the big increase in supply from JARPA II, this is probably unlikely to eventuate this year.

Nonetheless, based on the increasing consumption trend, by the end of February (prior to the by-products from the second year of JARPA II hitting the figures), the trough level of the stockpile seems almost certain to come in below the low levels observed in 2006 and 2005 (2898 and 2837 tonnes respectively).

The first I remember hearing of a "stockpile" of whale meat in Japan was in February 2006 this year, when WDCS raised the issue. It might be an interesting exercise to identify the first time an anti-whaling NGO criticised Japan's scientific whaling on the basis of increasing stockpile levels.

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