Could Japanese Whalers Kill Migaloo the Albino Humpback Whale?
Apparently anti-whaling activists are focusing their latest condemnations of the Japanese whaling fleet on the fact that one special whale could be killed: Japanese whalers have refused to say if they will target white humpback whales such as Migaloo, which annually travels along the east coast of Australia, in their research slaughter this summer. As the Japanese whaling fleet prepares to leave port and head for the Antarctic, the Japan Fisheries Agency has given a firm “no comment” to questions about white whales. Japan, which uses a loophole in International Whaling Commission (IWC) laws to hunt almost 1,000 whales each year in the southern hemisphere, allegedly for scientific research, will target humpbacks for the first time this summer. The ships have been given a quota of 50 humpbacks along with 50 fin whales and hundreds of the smaller minke whales this year. Migaloo, whose Aboriginal name means White Fella, is believed to be the only completely white humpback whale in the worl
