Wild Watch: Blood in the Water in Hokkaido's Sea of Okhotsk.

The author reflects on the lack of protection for marine mammals in Japan. The author relates his experience of witnessing the hunting of Steller's sea lions just offshore from the Shiretoko Peninsula World Heritage Site. According to the author, it is an extraordinary irony that the very purpose of listing the Shiretoko Peninsula as a World Heritage Site can only have been to promote it for further nature tourism. He states that where marine mammals are concerned, the country is bent on persecution and consumption.