"The Japan government Fisheries Agency issued 16,496 permits to kill dolphins, porpoises and other small whales for the 2013-2014 season throughout Japan. (When The Cove documentary was being made, the number of annual permits issued at that time was more than 23,000.) The numbers killed in Japan varies from year to year"
together we can change these laws for the better....
in 2013 3,283 dolphins died due to japans law..... very few captured dolphins are sold to wealthy people and the rest are slaughtered for food, they are killed through spears penetrating their body's and will slowly die