
News.com: Seals now in Japan's gun sights
Director-general of Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research, Hiroshi Hatanaka, said Japan would consider killing Antarctic crab eater seals for scientific research. Dr Hatanaka has reportedly said crab eater seals are a part of the eco-system model for the Japanese science program. At present, no Antarctic seals are being culled for research..."Nothing has been decided at the moment, and we do not know if...vessels have the capacity to take samples,"