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Mercury in Dolphin Meat: The New Minamata Plague in Japan

Press conference announcement

Contacts:
Richard O'Barry, Phone/Fax: (305) 668-1619; (907) 222-5005 (Hawthorn Suites in Anchorage/IWC Meeting, May 25-June 1^st); Mobile Phone: (786) 973-8618; E-mail: ricobarry@bellsouth.net

Susan Millward, Mobile Phone (202) 640-9606; (907) 793-5500 (Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel in Anchorage/IWC Meeting, May 22-June 1^st);
E-mail: susan@awionline.org

Mark J. Palmer, Phone:(415) 788-3666 x139; (907) 222-5005 (Hawthorne Suites in Anchorage/IWC Meeting, May 25-June 1^st); E-mail: mpalmer@cal.net

Studies have repeatedly shown that the meat of dolphins, sold in supermarkets to Japanese housewives and their families, are poisoned with mercury, at levels that exceed official health limits and higher than those found in fish that caused the Minamata disaster in Japan in the 1950's and 60's.

There will be a press conference Wednesday, May 30^th, 2007 at 2 p.m.

Captain Cook Hotel, Crows Nest Suite 2, 19^th Floor, Anchorage, Alaska, coinciding with the meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)

Presenters:

• Richard O'Barry, Marine Mammal Specialist, Save Japan Dolphins Coalition
• Susan Millward, Marine Mammal Research Associate, Animal Welfare Institute
• Mark J. Palmer, Associate Director, International Marine Mammal Project, Earth Island Institute

For background information, click here.

 

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