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A win for them might help the dolphins...
here's the trailer: http://thecovemovie.com/WatchTheTrailer.htm
(and my cousin Paula produced it)

Ok, and I'm friends with Olivia's M-I-L and knew her hubby when he was a youngster.

sorry - I'm clueless...I really am. Who's Olivia? Did she work on the dolphin film?

i hope the Cove wins only to help people pressure the Japanese government to stop the slaughter.  I saw an interview with the man who worked on this (he trained Flipper and later was sad to see that dolphins were captured from the wild.  He then has worked to keep them in the wild and safe).  He showed clips of the movie- where the water is red with their blood after they are trapped and slaughtered.  They are beautiful, intelligent creatures and to see this is heartbreaking

Congratulations to Paula on winnning an Oscar.  Several billion people saw the clips tonight.  That is getting the message out.  I have known about that cove for several years so am personally delighted that the killings have been exposed.

Dale, congratulate your cousin.  I was so thrilled to see that this won. 

She did and I am equally clueless, as I never remember any "titles" of people associated with films.  Heck!  I didn't even realize that they were doing the awards on Sunday.  Haven't been to a movie in over 20 years....

Dale - Olivia Ahnemann was Co-Producer and MIL is over the moon this morning with the OSCAR Win.  Congrats to you cousin, too  :happy:

Dale,

Congradulations to your cousin!  It's an important message, and the trailer was wonderful.

Paul

03-09) 04:00 PST Santa Monica -- It is sport among black-belt sushi eaters to see just how daring one's palate can be. But even among the squid-chomping, roe-eating and uni-nibbling fans, whale is almost unheard of on the plate. It also happens to be illegal.

Yet with video cameras and tiny microphones, the team behind Sunday's Oscar-winning documentary film "The Cove" has orchestrated a Hollywood-meets-Greenpeace-style covert operation to ferret out what the authorities say is illegal whale meat at one of Santa Monica' most highly regarded sushi destinations.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/09/MN881CCT9F.DTL#ixzz0hjyR9MJe

As reported in today's San Franclsco Chronicle

Gayle

Thanks, Gayle.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Federal prosecutors have filed charges against the owner of a California restaurant and its sushi chef that marine mammal activists say served illegal whale meat.

Typhoon Restaurant Inc., which owns The Hump restaurant in Santa Monica, and Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, a 45-year-old Culver City resident, were charged Wednesday with illegally selling an endangered species product, a misdemeanor.

Two undercover diners requested whale as part of an $600 omakase (oh-mah-KAH'-say) or chef's choice, meal. The young women were working with the producers of the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove," to record the whole meal.

They pocketed a sample, and genetic testing confirmed that it was meat from the endangered Sei whale.

If convicted, Yamamoto could face a year in prison and a fine of $100,000. The company could be fined $200,000.

Although not endangered, the size of and numbers of Blue Marlin are down (Black Marlin, too).  I always wanted to go Marlin fishing to land one of these monsters (now under 1,000 pounds instead of 1,800 or bigger), take some pictures, and RELEASE the beasts.  Sadly, they magnificent fish are delicacies in Japan and many end up flying on ice to the Far East for dinner.  This isn't against the law, but it doesn't sit well with me.  :confused:

We switched on Huckabee last night, caught the end of the Rove interview and as I was getting ready to do kitchen clean-up, saw "actor from the Cove".  Ok, plopped my butt back down and got a very real understanding of the herding and slaughter of the dolphins.  Between looking for Flipper/Cathy and the bloody slaughter, I'm not very comfortable about seeing dolphin shows again nor swimming with them at Discovery Cove.  Ok, only about 20 fisherman do the killing and it has been going on for about 400 years during the migration (for food), but it is the trainers who "sort" through the dolphins looking for the "right" ones that are perpetuating this slaughter.  150K for a Flipper and about 500.00 for food.  I get fishing and hunting for food, but this is literally shooting fish (mamales) in a barrel.

I'm such a coward that I didn't listen to the cries!  :scaredblue: I do understand that this is a very small population of people and tradition is part of the "food" purpose, but anyone with an ounce of humanity has to abhore the "collection" of dolphins for the purpose of training them and making lots of money with the remainders being killed as a by-product of the collection.  There a many traditions in different cultures that I don't like (parts mutalation is one), but it isn't my call to change another's culture or tradion.  This opposition to this slaughter of dolphins must come from the Japanese people, and I suspect it will.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/us/21sushi.html
and
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/03/20/whale.meat.restaurant/?hpt=T2

There is some justice after all.

Gayle

TAIJI, Japan - "Heroes" star Hayden Panettiere and her boyfriend, world champion boxer Wladimir Klitschko, received a chilly reception Friday in the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, where they called for an end to its annual dolphin hunt.

Panettiere said she would "love to be a spokesperson" for the town if it abandons the hunt. Her visit to Taiji comes just weeks after "The Cove," a gory depiction of Taiji's dolphin slaughter, won the Oscar for best documentary.

The celebrity couple arrived in the morning with a small group of environmental activists. Panettiere tried to meet the mayor and representatives from the local fisheries union, but she and Jeff Pantukhoff, an anti-whaling activist from the U.S., were blocked at the door of the town hall.

"We are trying to peacefully come up with better ideas as to how to generate income and utilize the nature here," Panettiere told reporters. "We've been to Taiji before and it's a beautiful place with beautiful wildlife."

If Taiji were to quit killing dolphins, "I'd love to be a spokesperson or to help generate tourism," she said.

Fishermen in the village on the rocky coast of southwest Japan consider the hunt a proud legacy. But it has long been targeted by hardcore environmentalists and animal lovers, and the Oscar has given the opposition more mainstream attention.

Panettiere, followed by a crowd of media throughout the day, later walked through a large hole in a barrier along a path leading to the famous cove depicted in the movie. The cove was strewn with nets used to trap the dolphins, as well as firewood and debris left by the hunters.

Panettiere posed for photographs as she walked along the small pebbly beach for several minutes, but then two town officials ran up and after a tense exchange everyone left. A fisherman pulled up several minutes later in a truck and boarded up the hole.

"We just wanted to have a very peaceful and relaxed conversation," Panettiere said.

Panettiere, who plays an indestructible cheerleader on the hit U.S. TV series "Heroes," is also the spokeswoman for the "Save the Whales Again!" campaign, which wants to halt Taiji's dolphin hunt. The campaign cites studies that show dolphin meat contains dangerously high levels of mercury and is unsafe to eat, and says killing the animals is cruel and unnecessary.

The 20-year-old actress also protested the Taiji hunt in 2007, when along with five other surfers she paddled out into the cove where the hunt takes place in a peaceful protest that was broken up by fisherman. Scenes from that encounter are briefly shown in "The Cove."

The Japanese government allows about 19,000 dolphins to be killed each year. Taiji hunts about 2,000 dolphins every year for meat -- less than other places -- but is singled out in part because of its "oikomi" method of herding and killing them near the shore. Some are captured and sold to aquariums and dolphin shows at water parks.

Residents once welcomed foreign visitors, but in recent years have grown weary of what they feel are one-sided portrayals and grisly snapshots shown out of context. Overzealous protesters and photographers are occasionally approached and scolded by rough-and-tumble locals looking to defend their town's reputation.

As the group arrived, a truck of right-wing nationalists blasted slogans, saying Japan should not be singled out for whaling and dolphin hunts because Westerners "are killing cows." They also demanded President Barack Obama apologize for the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

There were no clashes between the environmentalists and the townspeople.

Klitschko, the six-foot, five inch (196 centimeter) heavyweight boxing champion, who just last week recorded his 48th knockout in defending his WBO and IBF belts, towered over everyone as he quietly took in the day's events.

"It's not about being aggressive and violent," he said.

Before the group left, John Quigley, an "aerial artist" who creates large works of art that can be viewed from the sky, made a giant outline of a dolphin on the sand.

Sea Shepherd activist arrested filming cove dolphins

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-sea-shepherd-activist-arrested-filming-cove-dolphin-20120104,0,3929566.story (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-sea-shepherd-activist-arrested-filming-cove-dolphin-20120104,0,3929566.story)