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Should the whaling ban be lifted?
You may or may not know that there currently is a law set forth by the IWC(international whaling commission) which whislt banning all-out commercial whaling, it does permit a quota for the capture of certain species such as minke whales for 'scientific purposes'.
Noticeabley there are only a handful of the IWC members who want the ban lifted totally - Japan and Norway. What i cant understand is why? Im not sure about what happens in Norway but I know the Japanese consume vast amounts of fish annually, along with beef, chicken and so on. So why whale too? Whilst living in Japan 98-01, at Izakaya (resturants) i was offered Kujira (whale) more than once. Whale on the menu, whats scientific about that? i refused everytime. These mammals are endangered and it seemed Japan was using the science as a smoke screen. Locals told me that after war when they had nothing else they ate whale to help survive. However nowadays there's a lot more food around so why? do they care? what do you think?
I personally dont think the ban should be lifted, only strenthened. The whales need protecting and im sure Japan and Norway will be able to survive without hounding these creatures to extinction in the name of science!
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
it really makes me sad when anything is threatened to be extinct due to science, but the last time i visited Japan i was never offered Kujira; which i am glad.
Do you think their "Whale" is a term like "dolphin" is for tuna?
- ?Lv 44 years ago
NO. No. No there is no want to kill whales. hardship-free myths spread by ability of the Whale hunters... Whales devour too many fish; some scientists say whales decrease fish stocks, leaving a lot less for people. Japan has even stated that whales devour six circumstances the international’s commercial fish seize. different researchers say it truly is nonsense. The seas were teeming with both fish and whales for millennia — till people got here alongside. the most important replace changed into the creation of steam ability, which allowed trawlers to plunder the oceans. Whaling is humane; Whalers say they use explosive harpoons to kill the animals “instantly”, despite the indisputable fact that the international Whaling fee estimates that lack of life takes an accepted of 14 minutes if harpooned appropriately — and probably hours if no longer. Whales that do not die on the instantaneous are meant to be shot with rifles. despite the indisputable fact that, Greenpeace campaigners who've witnessed such incidents say some creatures are dragged backwards till they drown. Whaling has a cultural historic past Japan, Norway and Iceland have a lengthy heritage of small-scale coastal whaling (as did Britain), yet it truly is a a techniques cry from the well-known industrialised version. A Greenpeace-commissioned opinion pollin 2006 discovered that sixty 9% of Japan’s inhabitants changed into adverse to whaling and in easy words 5% ate whale meat.
- Boliver BumgutLv 41 decade ago
Has anyone asked the Whales?
Source(s): Jaques Cousteu Lives in all of Us - Cool ZLv 51 decade ago
no it shouldn't! it's kinda habit after you eat to survive then it becomes eat to satisfy..
like long ago England was forced to eat fish and chips bcos of lack of food then now everybody is eating fish and chips cos we like it.. dahh.. it should still be banned to kill the endanger species..
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