Ric O Berry Essay

Ric O’ Berry, is one of the advocates against cetaceans in captivity and wild cetaceans preservation. He also known as a famous dolphin trainer in the world, he used ten years to build up the multi-billion-dollar industry of dolphins, which create a desire of people wants to swim, hug and kiss the dolphins. This industry develops, and it creates cetaceans captivity and slaughter on the planet. Now, he spent his last 35 years try to tear it down due to his dolphin, Kathy, was committed suicide in his arm of the stress of being captivity. Ric and his team were trying to use this documentary as an evidence, aims to expose how wild dolphins are corralled, sold to aquariums, and even slaughtered for meat in Taiji, Japan.
According to the movie, estimated that 23,000 dolphins are killed in Japan each year. It is a global issue, there have huge unexpected numbers of dolphin death is because there has a demand among the world. Fishermen can get $600 for a dead dolphin and get more than $150,000 for a live dolphin from those fishery companies and aquariums. That's why cetaceans captivity works, by rewarding those fishermen for their bad
They have succussed to ban commercial whaling in 1986, but for some reason, that small cetacean, such as dolphins aren’t protected. Some critique said that it’s a toothless organization, but it's the only organization exist that aims to protect cetaceans. That’s show that the international organization and relations are not enough. I think there have limitations on those cetaceans conservation is due to its inroad stakeholder’s interest, such as fishermen income, Japan’s government GDP, aquariums assets, etc. As a result, Japan was buying off of poorer third world nations for their support of Japan's whaling industry, that supports most specifically at the International Whaling