Whale Tales, part 2
Thursday, May 31st, 2007It looks like the wayward whales found their way through the Golden Gate and back home to the Pacific without so much as a tail wave goodbye. It was quite a rescue operation and it looks like biologists might also have gotten some good data about humpback whales from their extended time in the Sacramento Delta.
That’s a nice ending but we’re still waiting to hear about the vote at the International Whaling Commission meetings in Anchorage. Quotas and approval for subsistence whaling by Arctic native groups have been approved, but the vote on whether to resume commercial whaling awaits. Meanwhile, Japan is working to keep their whaling industry afloat. They are lobbying to overturn the ban on commercial whaling and to disband the International Whaling Commission as an ineffective, unnecessary regulator. They are also pleading the case that certain coastal communities should be granted permission to hunt for cultural reasons as do the Arctic subsistence whalers. The distinction is that subsistence hunters consume all the whale products themselves and don’t sell them on the commercial market, as the Japanese whalers do. Greenpeace is protesting, but their efforts aren’t generating much U.S. press (maybe they should try raising awareness in Japan). The media will probably pick it up big time if commercial whaling is approved, so no news is good news.
June 4th, 2009 at 8:03 am
I cannot agree more with your statement “The media will probably pick it up big time if commercial whaling is approved, so no news is good news”
March 10th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
It´s just horrible and so wrong, Japan should really stop this! Thanks for the article
March 28th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
The future might change if the Japanese have their way. Japan is pushing to lift a 24-year-old ban on commercial whaling.
April 21st, 2010 at 9:20 pm
I feel the same, it is horrible.I think government of Japan should stop this.
April 25th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
it just is so wrong to allow whale hunting and hopefully the media does grab it and we take action to try to help stop it
May 7th, 2010 at 7:06 am
“They are also pleading the case that certain coastal communities should be granted permission to hunt for cultural reasons”; it’s wrong and awful. People have to struggle for the rights of those who can hardly do it on their own. WE have to stop it!
May 19th, 2010 at 10:29 am
Sad that if anything, matters have worsened since this was first published
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:04 pm
We beg Japan to stop such terrible huntings.
June 18th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
It is my special request to JAPAN please stop this and convert all news to good news.Thanks for this good posting.
June 19th, 2010 at 9:54 am
The media will probably pick it up big time if commercial whaling is approved, so no news is good news.
June 21st, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Japan really is always going to be in favor of pro whaling. Japan is so cultured and ahead of the world in so many things but their views on whaling and commercial fishing are so pro capitalism it is scary. Making money is the bottom line and whales, dolphins etc take a secondary spot next to cold hard cash. Good luck greenpeace making any waves on this.
June 24th, 2010 at 11:10 am
It is my special request to JAPAN please stop this and convert all news to good news.Thanks for this good posting.
June 30th, 2010 at 7:59 am
I agree with this completely. I hope there is some way to show/teach the whalers in Japan that there are other ways to earn a living with their trait.
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Please stop whale hunting i don’t agree to this kind of cruelty to animals whalers in Japan should realized this there other ways and means to earn a decent living with their endeavour.:)
August 12th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
If we just let the whale population will be exhausted after a long time therefore we must try to stop this all … thanks for post
August 17th, 2010 at 7:46 am
The whale wars will continue for a long time yet.
But there is a silver lining.
The IWC has proposed a new whale sanctuary to be established in the south Atlantic. Although no whaling actually occurs there now, the proposal would ensure that south Atlantic would always be a safe haven for the whales.
August 24th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
I want Japanese people stop hunt whales to be traded any reason
August 29th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
I feel horrible.I think government of Japan must make a stop.
September 14th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I am sorry but I have never understood folks who will just keep going and going until they wipe out an entire species of one sort or another. Please just let them live in peace and force the Japanese learn to eat something else for once. Come on, we should all be given the chance at life!
September 18th, 2010 at 1:24 am
japan goverment should stop this hunting,they need some awerness.