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‘The Cove’ director helps bust illegal whale-meat sushi sellers
Fresh off his whirlwind tour of accolades for his movie “The Cove” — which now includes an Oscar for best documentary — Boulder’s Louie Psihoyos is already busting up the next ocean injustice.
Psihoyos and his band of Ocean activists helped authorities sting a sushi restaurant in Santa Monica that was illegally selling whale-meat sushi.
From a New York Times article:
Louie Psihoyos
With video cameras and tiny microphones, the team behind Sunday’s Oscar-winning documentary film “The Cove” orchestrated a Hollywood-meets-Greenpeace-style covert operation to ferret out what the authorities say is illegal whale meat at one of this town’s most highly regarded sushi destinations.
Their work, undertaken in large part here last week as the filmmakers gathered for the Academy Awards ceremony, was coordinated with law enforcement officials, who said Monday that they were likely to bring charges against the restaurant, the Hump, for violating federal laws against selling marine mammals.
The whale meat, as it turns out, is from the Sei whale, which are endangered but still sometimes hunted in the North Pacific under a controversial Japanese science program.
Read the full story at nytimes.com.
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