Japan exhibits first business fin whale catch in 48 years

Japan’s principal whaling firm has launched photographs exhibiting the primary fin whale caught commercially by its fleet in nearly 50 years earlier than it was butchered and despatched house for consumption.

Japan, certainly one of three nations to hunt whales commercially with Norway and Iceland, this 12 months added the fin whale to a catch checklist that already contains minke, Bryde’s and sei whales.

Fin whales are the world’s second-largest animal after the blue whale.