Ric O'Berry is probably the world's top dolphin domestication expert. He said that he spent 10 years on the training of dolphin, but he resolutely spent 35 years to destroy it. He made more people fall in love with the cute and smart creatures like dolphins, but the huge profits also led to more slaughter of this creatures.
In Wakayama Prefecture , the southernmost part of Honshu Island, Japan , there is a small village called Taiji, facing the Pacific Ocean with high cliffs on three sides. There are about 3,600 residents living in a town of 5.96 square kilometers, of which about 1/3 are engaged in fisheries. On the surface, the town advertises its love for cetaceans: smiling whale models are erected in the center of the town, ferry boats are whitewashed in the shape of dolphins, anthropomorphic dolphins are printed on the stone slabs on the ground, and there are also dedicated whale spirits in the town. The temple. It is packed like a theme park. However, behind the scenes, there is a hidden murderous intent.
In the Edo period at the beginning of the 17th century, Taiji fishermen invented the spear whaling method, and "Whale Town" Taiji became the birthplace of Japanese traditional whaling method. In modern society, whaling is an important source of income for local residents. In 1986, the International Whaling Commission issued a ban on commercial whaling, but a year later, "restricted whaling for research purposes" still existed, and the number of dolphins and small whales killed in Japan increased by three times. Every year, an average of 23,000 dolphins are "legally" besieged by Japan. In Taiji alone, more than 1,500 dolphins have to be "processed".
There are approximately 80 aquariums in Japan, and nearly half of them house cetaceans. The caught dolphins usually die within two years. The unsuccessful dolphins have become a Chinese meal for the citizens. 5000 tons of dolphin meat appeared on the Japanese market, but most ordinary citizens would never have imagined that they had eaten dolphin meat because it was written on the package as whale meat.
The captured images completely shocked the photography team. After the slaughter started, the blue-green water instantly turned into striking red. Watching the children and parents being slaughtered, the dolphins wailed from there to nothing, leaving only the jokes of Japanese fishermen, and the dolphins' corpses floated up in the water.
