太地町

这只海豚是在太地町一年一度的海豚捕猎期间捕获的，这一点颇具争议性。

Controversially , the creature was captured during the annual dolphin hunt in the town of Taiji .

据美联社报道，因猎捕海豚而臭名昭著的日本村庄“太地町”昨天又屠杀了一批海豚。

Residents of the Japanese seaside village Taiji , notorious for hunting dolphins , slaughtered another pod of dolphins Tuesday , AP reports .

专家表示，这只海豚到太地町鲸鱼博物馆定居之前，能存活这么长时间已经很令人惊奇。太地町鲸鱼博物馆位于日本和歌山县南部的东牟娄郡。

Experts said that it was remarkable that the animal had actually lived so long before ending up at the Taiji Whale Museum , in Higashimuro District , in southern Japan 's Wakayama Prefecture .

2009年奥斯卡获奖纪录片《海豚湾》致使太地町的捕猎活动臭名昭著。纪录片中展示了渔民们的捕猎活动，他们在一个小海湾里围捕海豚，要么把它们抓起来送进水族馆，要么就杀掉吃肉。

The town and the hunt was made notorious by the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary " The Cove , " which shows fishermen herding dolphins into a cove either to be captured for aquariums or killed for meat .