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The hunt sees the animals driven into a cove where some are slaughtered for their meat with knives in shallow waters, the BBC report said.
Of late the carcasses of a few whales and even an elephant seal had washed ashore on different beaches across Kerala.
Researchers used a helicopter to land on ice floes and retrieve the samples during an 18-day icebreaker expedition.
The team drew 18 ice cores of up to 2 meters long from four locations and saw visible plastic beads and filaments of various shapes and sizes.
The carcass in Thiruvananthapuram was identified by cetacean specialist Dipani Sutaria and professor Biju Kumar, the head of the aquatic biology and fisheries department at the Kerala University.
A statement by the Australian foreign ministry urged Japan to return to the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
Japan has long said few whale species are endangered and announced in December it was leaving the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to resume hunting after years of campaigns by industry supporters and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose constituency includes a city that has long whaled.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose district includes the old whaling centre of Shimonoseki, has long campaigned to restart commercial whaling, but the industry's future is far from clear.
Several restaurants have come up with whaleburgers, a patty of whale meat sandwiched between buns or pressed rice.
Globally, up to 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Of 300 million tonnes of plastic waste the world produces annually, 8 million end up in the oceans, killing marine life and entering the human food chain.