2. The dolphin slaughter takes place in Taiji, Japan, they are the biggest exporters of live dolphins that are used in marine shows, and dolphin meat that are sold in fish markets.
4. Ric 'o' Barry was a former dolphin trainer, he helped capture and train five wild dolphins who played the role "flipper" in a TV series. The TV series was a big hit, and had made dolphins more popular, and loved by the general public, and had resulted in marine parks having dolphins as one of their attractions. One of the dolphins "committed suicide," by closing her blowhole voluntarily in order to suffocate, and died in Ric's arms. The death of this dolphin had made Ric realize that dolphins aren't meant to be living in captivity, they were meant to run free into the wild, where there is no limits to how far they swim. Ric, later on got sent to jail, because he tried to free the remaining dolphins that were kept in captivity back into the wild. After he finished his time in jail, he had decided to change people's minds, he wanted to inform people of what was happening to the dolphins.
6. The country that indirectly runs the International Whaling Commission is Japan. Japan would pay some small countries that were having difficulties financially and pay them money so that they do not go against them in the IWC conferences.
8. Fishermen would make noises by hitting a hammer against a pole. Since dolphins are very sensitive to sound, they would run away from the sound that was made by the sailors. The dolphins would then swim towards the lagoon/cove, and then the next day, people would go to the lagoon and look for bottled nose dolphin females to send to different parts of the world, and then kill the rest for the meat.
10. Around 23, 000 dolphins are killed in the secret cove a year.
12. The toxic substance that is found in dolphin meat and any other oceanic animal is mercury.
14. Japanese people eat meat, because there is still some nutrients in the dolphin meat. Also some fish stores in Japan sold dolphin meat labeled as whale meat.
16. Fish is severely declining because around 7/10 people rely on fish for protein, so there is an increase in demand of fish, which makes many fisherman over fish the fish.
18. Dolphin meat is sold as whale meat in fish markets, but the government chooses to not interfere.
20. The main character went through the conference with a big screen attached to him, that showed the hidden camera footage's of what happens in the secret cove.
22. Whaling was banned in 1986.
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