The Cove Page #4

I just let her go,

and she sank straight down on her belly

to the bottom of the tank.

The next day, I was in the Bimini jail

for trying to free a dolphin

at the Lerner Marine Laboratory.

That's how I reacted to it.

I was going to free

every captive dolphin I could.

I spent ten years

building that industry up.

And I spent the last 35 years

trying to tear it down.

When I started out,

there were only three dolphinariums.

Today it's become

a multi-billion-dollar industry.

In all of these captures,

we helped create the largest slaughter

of dolphins on the planet.

Anyone can watch the capture process

go on from the road.

But Ric pointed out

where they take the boats

around to the secret cove

that nobody could see

where dolphins that weren't selected

are slaughtered and sold for their meat.

Here in Taiji,

you can go to the Whale Museum

and watch the dolphin show

and eat a dolphin at the same time.

They sell dolphin and whale meat

right in the dolphinarium.

It's the captivity industry

that keeps this slaughter going

by rewarding the fishermen

for their bad behavior.

They only get $600 for a dead dolphin,

but they can get more than $150,000

for a live show dolphin.

I told Ric

that I'd help him out,

that we'll fix this, we'll change this.

And I didn't tell him how

because I really didn't know

how we were going to do it.

There are lots of groups

here in Japan...

World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace,

International Fund

for Animal Welfare.

They all make hundreds

of millions of dollars between them.

This is the largest slaughter

of dolphins in the world.

Where are they?

There is one organization

whose sole purpose is to protect

all cetaceans in the wild.

That's the IWC...

the International Whaling Commission.

But for some reason,

small cetaceans, dolphins

and porpoises, aren't protected.

Dolphins are whales.

Size doesn't matter.

The IWC will go down in history

as a ship of fools.

There's no...

There's no democracy here

by any stretch of the imagination.

They do whatever the hell

they want to do.

Mr. O'Barry, you know I'm here.

Yeah?

I have to ask you to leave the hotel.

You could have waited

till morning, but...

Sir, I asked you very nicely

to turn off your camera.

The reason why small cetaceans

are not popular with the IWC

is because the whaling nations

that set this thing up

clearly has the best interest

in leaving those out,

particularly if they

happen to be eating them.

Joji Marshita is the Deputy

Commissioner for Whaling.

He's a talented guy from Japan

with a real hard job to do.

He has to get up every day.

First he'll look at himself in the mirror,

and then he's got to go out

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