US federal prosecutors have filed charges against a sushi chef and a restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered whale meat. Typhoon Restaurant Inc, which owns The Hump ...

Federal prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against a sushi chef and a Santa Monica restaurant on allegations that they served illegal and endangered whale meat. Federal prosecutors filed charges ...

LOS ANGELES — Two sushi chefs who worked at The Hump restaurant at Santa Monica Airport are expected to plead guilty to serving meat from federally protected sei whales, according to federal ...

The filmmakers behind The Cove—the Oscar-winning documentary about the annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan—got together with law enforcement and scientists to bust a California restaurant that ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California sushi chef and the restaurant in which he worked have been charged with illegally serving meat from an endangered Sei whale, the Justice Department said on Thursday ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - After Japan granted more freedom to commercial whalers, a company turned the once hard to find meat into a convenient (yet expensive) snack. On December 26, 2018, the Ministry of ...

TOKYO -- Whale meat served last year in upscale sushi restaurants in Los Angeles and Seoul came from whales killed as part of Japan's "scientific" hunt, according to a DNA analysis published Wednesday ...