The movie ' The Cove ' is a film about the former dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry's quest to document dolphin operation in Taiji, Japan. Ric O'Barry helped to capture and trained five dolphins for the television series, 'Flipper' which were played by these five dolphins. After one of the dolphins in O'Barry's opinion, committed suicide in his arms by closing her blowhole voluntarily in order to suffocate due to tremendous and since then Ric O'Barry thinks that keeping dolphins in captive is a curse.
According to the movie ' The Cove ' the Japanese fishermen in Taiji are killing the dolphins and whales for money. Taiji fishermen catch dolphins and sell the captured dolphins to dolphin trainers from all over the world. Dolphin trainers choose their desired button nosed dolphins and have them trained for performances in dolphin parks. Dolphins who are not selected by the dolphin trainers will be brought to the cove which is surrounded by wire fences and "keep out" signs for slaughtering and their meat will be sold in the markets.When these fishermen are questioned about the killings of the dolphins, they said that it is their tradition/culture but many Japanese did not know of such tradition existing.
It is 'wrong' to kill the dolphins and whales because they are intelligent and self-aware. According to a surfer in the movie, there was once when he was surfing, a predator was 2 metres away from him and a dolphin saved his life by pushing the predator away from him. Another reason is that the meat of the dolphin is toxic as it contains mercury and it will deteriorate the health of the humans. Lastly, the method of killing is brutal as the dolphins are being pierced through by a spear like weapon and they are left to die slowly until they drowned.
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