How do japan catch whales?

Answer 1

In the Southern Oceans they have got a massive whaling fleet. The Japanese whaling fleet is like a massive industry which have various ships for certain purposes, in general, it contains a factory ship, two or three harpoon ships and a spotter ship, along with others but not relevant to this. The spotter ships relay the coordinates of a pod of whales to the harpoon vessels and the harpoon vessels would hunt and chase them down. Once a harpoon vessel is within range to kill a whale or whales, they would load the harpoon gun and when they are ready, they would shoot the harpoon and they would try to aim for the head, so it would be killed quicker but this is rarely the case and there are occasions where some whales suffer for at least twenty minutes and they would suffocate on their own blood. If a whale wasn't killed immediately, they should drag it using a rope towards the harpoon vessel and shoot a rifle into its skull. Once the whale is dead, it would be dragged by the harpoon vessels to the mother ship or in this case, it is known as the factory ship. When a harpoon vessel is close to the factory ship, if the whale hasn't been killed more than twelve hours prior to the transportation of the whale, it would be transferred from the harpoon vessel to the factory ship via a long thick rope up the slip way. After the whale has been transferred to the factory ship, the slaughtering begins; they would cut open the stomach and simply butcher a whole whale with a group of 100 Japanese butchers. They would pack and freeze the meat where it would be transported to another vessel, where it would be transported back to Japan to be sold. Once the whale is packed and frozen, the whalers would through any worthless parts of the whale, mainly the vital organs off the boat and into the ocean.

Answer 2

they shoot them with a harpoon wait about twenty five minutes until they die and pull them up through a hole in the whaling ship from there they gut them and cut they're meat for food then they put they're guts in the ocean/sea. In Japan 1400 whales are killed each year it is basicly illegal but the whaler claim it is fir research!

Answer 3

They catch it with a net