How dolphins are killed on Taiji

There is a small town in Japan called Taiji, in this town every year thousands of dolphins are killed on a period of dolphin hunt. The principal goal of killing the dolphins is for consumption, recently the number of dolphins killed are bigger and all of us believe that is completely unnecessary and these activities should be considered as a crime against nature and maybe punished.

The fisherman’s use a horrible way to kill the dolphins, they guide the dolphins to a certain places and then they attract them close to the boat, then a lot of small boats called “bangers” push them with the bigger boats and some drop metal poles into the water scar the dolphins further and further into the cove. The boats use nets to block the dolphins and on this way the animals can’t scape. Then, men in the water and on the banger boats tie ropes to the dolphin’s tails and drag them to the shoreline. This is an excessive and horrible process and a lot of dolphins die before they are pulled up to the shoreline.

But for those who still live, is waiting a worst and painful destiny. The method that the fisherman uses is horrible, they use a metal rod that is introduced in the animal’s head being very carefully with this instrument with the objective of don’t affect any part of the meat. This method takes a couple of minutes and is very painful for the victims.

Not all the dolphins are killed, a lot of them are sold as show dolphins, this is a very juicy business for the fisherman’s, so in few years, the percentage of dolphins sold has become bigger than the percentage of dolphins killed because they receive a lot of money more if they sold them. When a fisherman sold a dolphin as food he obtain around $600 USD per dolphin killed, but when they sold a dolphin as a show animals, the buyer can pay around $300,000 USD for each bottlenose dolphin.

Dolphins are very intelligent animals, so they shouldn’t be kept in captivity, this fact should be considered as torture. These beautiful animals are incredibly similar to humans, they need space, they need to be able to swim at top space, when they are free, they help a lot of scientist on behavior investigations and a lot of activities. This type of activities should be stopped, all the animals are very important to the ecosystem and take them from the oceans to kept them in captivity is a very bad activity. A lot of species depends on dolphins to survive.