Japanese fleet returns with quota of 333 whales in Antarctic

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FILE - In this April 5, 2014 file photo, Japanese whaling vessel Nisshin Maru returns to a port, from the Antarctic Sea, in Shimonoseki, western Japan. Japan's whaling fleet returned Thursday, March 24, 2016, with 333 whales it caught in its first Antarctic harvest since an international court ruling stopped its hunt two years ago. The Fisheries Agency said that Japanese whalers in the four-ship fleet killed 333 minke whales, filling its catch quota, during the four-month expedition in the Antarctic. (AP Photo/Kyodo News, File) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDITTOKYO (AP) — Japan's whaling fleet returned Thursday with 333 whales it caught in its first Antarctic harvest since an international court ruling stopped its hunt two years ago.


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