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28 Info. Rep.: Animal Welfare Inst. 1 (1979)

handle is hein.animal/awiqu0028 and id is 1 raw text is: INFORMATION REPORT ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE P.O. Box 3650 Washington, D.C. 20007 February-March, 1979 Vol.28, No.1 ONE MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF TRAPPED FURSSMUGGIED NTO TE3AS Two and a half tons of raw skins of furbearing animals - from the endangered Mexican lynx to domestic tabby cats - were seized by federal authorities on February 24th. According to The El Paso Times, February 28, 1979, Tom Riley, local head of Fish and Wildlife, said the seizure is the largest ever made in the United States. Riley said the skins were confiscated on the 37,000-acre ranch of David W. Adams. Adams was arrested along with four alleged illegal aliens. The men were charged in Pecos with conspiracy to smuggle and smuggling the skins from Mexico into the United States; violating the endangered species laws; and illegally transporting the skins in interstate or foreign commerce [Lacey Act). Adams is out of jail on a $15,000 personal recognizance bond and the alleged aliens are being held under $30,000 bonds each, Riley said. He said the four allegedly were used by Adams to complete the skinning of the hides...The agent said 1,556 skins were of the Mexican lynx, which is an endangered species. He (continued on page 41 Beautiful and Gentle Even When Strung Up by Their Tails for Slaughter, Blue White Dolphins in Kawana Harbor, zu Peninsula, Japan. TAIYO LOSES $20 MILLION IN JAPAN JOINT WHALING COMPANY The Japanese whaling industry is virtually bankrupt. It only survives with a government subsidy of some $10,000,000 a year, and the Taiyo Fishery Company which owns 30% of the Japan Joint Whaling Company, recently suffered an operating loss of $20,000,000 in this company according to the Japan Company Handbook published by The Oriental Economist for the first half of 1979. The Japan Joint Whaling Company was formed in 1975 after Nippon Suisan lost $5,000,000 in its whaling operations for the year. Nippon Suisan, a fishing company which is second only to Taiyo in size, agreed with the rest of the whaling industry In Japan that competition in whaling was no longer economically feasible, but the industry argued that by joining forces, elimina- ting competition and forming the Japan Joint Whaling Company that with government help, it would get back on its feet in three years. That has not happened. The big fishing companies continue a highly profitable trade in fish, but it is clear from the report on Taiyo's twenty million dollar loss that whaling signifi- cantly decreases those profits. There is no longer any rational argument for the continuation of commercial whaling. Photo by ECO These dolphins, killed for human consumption contain, an averageof4ppmof mercury, ten times theJapanese Health and Welfare Ministry limit of 0.4 ppm. co 0I

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