Sushi Spot Is Charged With Serving Whale Meat

In an unusual operation that was sparked by the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary film about dolphin hunting, “The Cove” the restaurant, the Hump, was investigated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the California Department of Fish and Game, and the federal Customs and Border Protection agency, which all concluded that the restaurant was serving endangered Sei whale as sushi.

Jennifer Steinhauer wrote the primary article about the whale-sushi bust for the Times, then Andrew Revin expanded the scope on .Earth, the Times' environmental blog:

Elsewhere in the world, the appetites and indulgences of wealthy consumers are sustaining the flow of gorilla hands and other bush meat from African forests to swelling cities and the flow of exotic, endangered species  to medicinal products companies and restaurants in Asia. Is it jarring, or not, to see such activity here?