TOKYO: Japanese police say they have arrested US animal rights activist Ric O’Barry, who trained dolphins for the TV show Flipper, near the town of Taiji as it kicked off its controversial dolphin hunt.
Bad weather pushed back the first dolphin-killing of the six-month season which opens on Sept 1 every year, a fisheries association official said.
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