12/05/2005 10:08:22 AM

Report links U.S. seafood giant to Japan whale hunt

The Environmental Investigation Agency, The Humane Society of the United States and Greenpeace United States have presented a report revealing that U.S. seafood giant, Gorton's of Gloucester, is owned by Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd., a company with a 70-year history of whale hunting. T

he new investigative report, "The Gorton's Family Whaling Business," produced and released by the Environmental Investigation Agency, details the long and bloody history of commercial whale hunting by Gorton's parent company, Nippon Suisan, also known as Nissui, a global fishing company based in Japan involved in hunting whales, despite the international ban on commercial whaling.

Source: http://www.eia-international.org/