TOKYO, Aug 29 (Reuters)– Japan will certainly not decrease its guard over its whaling although its largest opponent– the Sea Shepherd preservation team– has claimed it will certainly not send out ships to interrupt its fleet this year, a federal government authorities claimed on Tuesday.

Paul Watson, creator of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, said in a statement on Monday the team’s restricted sources made it challenging to take on the armed forces modern technology Japan utilizes to protect its whaling fleet and also it would certainly not send out ships to the Southern Ocean this year.

But an authorities at Japan’s Fisheries Agency was doubtful.

“It’s not clear what the real intention of their statement is and we don’t know whether the organization will stop its anti-whaling actions this year,” the authorities, that decreased to be determined, informed Reuters.

Japan resists worldwide demonstrations to execute what it calls clinical study whaling, having consistently claimed its best objective is to whale readily once more. In the 2016-2017 period, its fleet took 333 minke whales in the Antarctic.

“We can’t deny the possibility that other anti-whaling groups may take action, so we continue to closely monitor the situation and we’re not making any predictions,” the Japanese authorities claimed.

Watson claimed his team had actually uncovered Japan was using armed forces monitoring to check their activities by satellite and also Japan’s whaling vessels can quickly prevent them.

“We cannot compete with their military grade technology,” Watson claimed.

He claimed Japan had “escalated their resistance” with a brand-new anti-terrorism regulations “some of which are specifically designed to condemn Sea Shepherd tactics.”

“The Japanese whalers not only have all the resources and subsides their government can provide, they also have the powerful political backing of a major economic super-power,” Watson claimed.

His team needed to determine whether to invest restricted source on one more project in the Southern Ocean with long shot of success or “regroup with different strategies and tactics?,” he claimed.

“We will not be sending ships to the Southern Ocean this year, but are not abandoning the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. We need to cultivate the resources, the tactics and the ability to significantly shut down the illegal whaling operations of the Japanese whaling fleet,” he claimed.

Japan has actually long preserved that a lot of whale types are not threatened which consuming whale becomes part of its society. It started clinical whaling in 1987, a year after a worldwide whaling halt started. (Reporting by Kaori Kaneko; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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