Whaling station to reopen in San Francisco Bay

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The Nakabe Whale Research Institute (NWRI) announced today that one of the two last whaling stations in America will be reopened as a whale research facility.
The whaling station was active in San Francisco Bay until 1971, located on the north side of Point San Pablo in Richmond, California. It was opened in 1956 by the Del Monte Company and sold the canned whale meat under the Moby Dick brand. After its closure the station sat idle in Richmond for 26 years until it burned and finally dismantled in 1998. The land has a 100 year land use permit still in effect meaning that the whaling station could reopen and operate for nearly another 40 years.
When active, the station was manned by a crew of 40 men and could reduce a humpback whale to oil, poultry meal, and pet food in an hour and a half.
The rebuilding of the research station is being funded by the Nakabe Whale Research Institute, which is a nonprofit organization in Japan, and is a research organization specializing in the biological and social sciences related to whales. The new facility will be named the Pt. San Pablo Cetacean Research Institute. The NWRI will be conducting its research on Humpback whales, which federal authorities have taken off the endangered species list, saying they have recovered enough in the last 40 years to warrant being removed.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have said that nine of the 14 distinct populations of humpbacks will be removed from the endangered list. Currently more than 11,000 humpback whales breed in Hawaiian waters.
The NWRI methods include lethal sampling techniques which have been the source of international controversy over the validity and necessity of the research. Several environmental groups oppose this program, claiming it to be commercial whaling in disguise, which is banned by the International Whaling Commission (IWC). However, whales may still be taken legally for purposes of scientific research.
Whether the resulting whale products will be sold in Japanese fish markets after the research data is collected or turned into poultry and pet food as under Del Monte ownership has yet to be released.

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