Every year on the first of September, at a cove in a small town called Taiji on the southeast coast of Japan's Honshu Island, a new fishing season begins: the dolphin season.

每年九月第一天，日本本州南部海岸一个叫做“太地”的小镇海湾，新一轮的捕鱼季开始：捕杀海豚的季节。

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Mr. Van Eperen, the volunteer guard, speared a sturgeon the first time he went out for the ice-fishing season in 1995.

WSJ: Standing Guard for the Sturgeon