Home Port: Yushin Maru

home port: Nisshin Maru's two support ships, Yushin Maru and No. 3 Yushin Maru, also returned to their home ports. ; Japan resumed commercial whaling on July 1 after leaving the International Whaling Commission, promising that the whalers would stay within the country's exclusive economic waters, according to The Japan Times. Japan had conducted research hunts for 31 years in the Antarctic and the Northwest Pacific that conservationists criticized as a cover for commercial hunts banned by the IWC. Kyodo Senpaku President Eiji Mori praised the whalers for returning with better than expected results despite earlier uncertainty because of their lack of experience in the area. Operator Kyodo Senpaku Co. said its main factory ship Nisshin Maru returned to its home port of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Friday after catching 223 whales during its three-month expedition off the Japanese coast. We were worried if we could catch any, but they did a great job, Mori said. Of the quota of 232 whales allocated to the main fleet, they caught 187 Bryde's, 25 sei and 11 minke whales, only nine minke whales short of the cap. We will examine the results closely and make a plan for the next season. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.