MINKES OF ALL SIZES GETTING THE CHOP
Crew members on the Australian Government's surveillance ship Oceanic Viking have taken photographs and video footage of the Japanese whaling fleet hauliing an adult minke and a calf on board the Nisshin Maru.

The Japanese authorities from the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) claim the two whales "are not related to each other" and that their science programme requires random sampling of the minke population, hence whales of all sizes are being killed.

The story is being quite widely reported in the world's media. Here's a link to one report.

Australian Customs Service photograph.