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The hunt for whales is all about science and has nothing to do with delivering whale meat for the Japanese. That's the official version put forward by the Japanese government to justify its controversial, so-called scientific, whaling program.

Now Japan has released its scientific findings, which have concluded that whales are losing blubber because ocean resources are growing scarce. The study, led by Kenji Konishi of Japan's government-backed Institute of Cetacean Research, was published in the journal Polar Biology overnight. The study is based on more than 6,000 dead whales.

Guests

Dr. Nick Gales
Head of the Australian Marine Mammal Centre at the Antarctic Division's Science Branch

Reporter

Michel Panayotov, International Editor

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