3 Japanese whaling vessels return home from Antarctic Ocean

3 Japanese whaling vessels return home from Antarctic Ocean

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japanese whaling vessel Yushin Maru No. 3 anchored at Shimonoseki Port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on April 13 after it, along with two other whaling vessels, returned after completing their whale hunt for what the Japanese government calls scientific-research purposes. The vessel's stern was damaged in a collision with a Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel in the Antarctic Ocean.

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