Taken from the CBS link:
"Fishermen in Taiji hunt dolphins from October to April. They've caught more than 60 striped dolphins so far this year under the government quota system. The meat is usually canned and sold in supermarkets."
From the One World UK Link:
"EIA investigations have revealed that C Two-Network, a Japanese supermarket chain and a member of the Tesco Group, sells canned cetaceans products in 32 of its 78 stores and fresh cetaceans products in 10 stores. Tesco purchased almost 95% of the Japanese company in July 2003.
The canned products are sourced from the Nissui and Kyokuyo whaling companies. These companies own shares in the whaling fleet used for Japan’s self-professed “scientific” whaling research and sell much of the meat from the hundreds of minke, Bryde’s and sei whales that are killed each year in the name of science. According to staff working at the supermarkets, C Two-Network also sells fresh meat from “toothed whales”, a generic term for dolphins, porpoises, and small whales hunted in Japan’s coastal waters."
And taken from the Japan Times link:
"First, the cetaceans most commonly killed around Japan are not whales but dolphins and porpoises, yet all the meat from these catches that makes it to market is labeled "kujira " (whale). In fact the market term hides a whole array of species -- minke whale, sperm whale, blue whale, humpback whale, fin whale, Baird's beaked whale, short-finned pilot whale, Risso's dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, striped dolphin and Dall's porpoise. (I guess iruka is seen by marketers as conveying the wrong image -- few people would consider eating the friendly creature that starred in "Flipper")."
With respect to the link you provided, it deals specifically with dolphin safe practices for tuna fishery practices and not specifically the dolphin hunts and what happens to that meat.
In any event, clearly we will not likely agree on this issue. And yes, before you ask, I have been to Japan, my ex-husband lived in Japan for years and my ex-brother in law lived there even longer (approximately 10 years) and his wife is also Japanese. When I saw this news clip it was discussed and none of them denied the practice.
