2: Where is the dolphin slaughter taking place? (City and country)
Answer: Taiji, Japan
4: What is the turning point in his life that makes him completely change and "turn his Porsches in for this crusade?
Answer: The death (suicidal) of Flipper
6: What country indirectly runs the international Whaling Commission?
Answer: Japan
8: How do the fishermen trap the dolphins in the cove?
Answer: They create a wall of noise by banging metal rods in the water, this causes panic towards the dolphins. As the dolphins are in the bay, the fishermen quickly close the nets and trap them.
10: How many dolphins are killed at this secret cove a year?
Answer: 23,000 a year
12: What toxic substance in found in dolphin meat?
Answer: Mercury
14: Dolphin meant has 2000 ppm of mercury in it while the recommended amount is no more than 0.4 ppm. Why do many Japanese people eat it then?
Answer: People from Japan don't realize what they are actually eating, the Japanese Government cover up the fact that dolphins are sold as "healthy whales".
16: The number of fish is severely declining. What is the cause?
Answer: The main cause is over-exploitation, which refers to people consuming too many fish.
18: What is the form of propaganda they plan to use to "sell" dolphin meat to people?
Answer: The Japanese Government give out free meat to school systems and feed the children.
20: The main character goes to the IWC and does what at the end (even though he is banned from their meetings)?
Answer: He suddenly walks in and then shows the footage of Japanese Fishermen killing dolphins in the cove.
22: When was whaling banned?
Answer: 1986
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