Sting Hooks Up with The Cove's Ric O'Barry to Fight Against Dolphin Slaughter...

Sting, in Asia for his "Symphonicity" tour, said he's sympathetic to the save-the-dolphins view in "The Cove" but that the best approach is "through dialogue," noting that many Japanese are also outraged by dolphin killing.

Sting and Ric O'Barry, the star of the "The Cove," the Academy Award-winning documentary that depicts the dolphin hunt in the town of Taiji in southwestern Japan have been friends since the Sundance Film Festival two years ago, where "The Cove" had its first major showing.

Backstage  at the Tokyo concert hall where the Britsh music star was performing Sting told old O'Barry to stay optimistic, assuring him that word was getting out about overfishing and depletion of the oceans.

"We only evolve as a species when we are in a crisis," Sting said. "We don't want an empty sea."

If you are still not familiar with "The Cove" it was directed by Louie Psihoyos, shows dolphins driven into a cove and stabbed by fishermen on small boats, turning the water red with blood, as the dolphins writhe in agony.

"I was blown away by the movie," Sting told The Associated Press before his concert. "We should not be eating dolphins."

O'Barry said Sting and his wife were among the first people to express support for "The Cove." The former Police frontman has spoken out on environmental and humanitarian issues around the world.

He told O'Barry to stay optimistic, assuring him that word was getting out about overfishing and depletion of the oceans.

"We only evolve as a species when we are in a crisis," Sting said. "We don't want an empty sea."

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