A captured short-finned pilot whale is measured by fishery workers, including Fisheries Agency employees, at Taiji Port in Japan's oldest whaling village of Taiji, 420 km (260 miles) southwest of Tokyo, in this June 4, 2008 file photo. Japan's whaling programme in seas near Antarctica is not for scientific purposes, judges at the U.N.'s highest court ruled on March 31, 2014, agreeing with Australia that Tokyo should revoke permits to catch and kill whales for research purposes. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)
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