Posted on 11/16/2017 10:29:09 AM PST by Oatka
I’m with you, Karl...I miss laughing at these morons. It was like the Keystone Cops Go To Sea.
Of course it’s not actually international law. It’s a non-binding agreement between nations in a “club” that has no legal standing and Japan keeps threatening to leave.
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If only that tub of guts had waited until he and his kumbaya krew were scuttled ... Self-righteous aholes enforcing their version of the “law.”
I have to agree with you. In a battle of douchebags, the Japanese and the Sea Shepherd lot should both go down.
Japan never signed the treaty so legally they are in no way bound by it. Something like the US never signed the "ICC" treaty so we are not bound by it.
And for some reason they never went after Norway or Greenland, who both still do whale hunts.
And Norway does not even eat their whales.
But hey it make people who have no idea of the difference between a narwhal, sperm whale, humpback whale or minke whale to run around spouting nonsense about the evil Japanese.
Huh? Whales now have a sanctuary? Who woulda thought......
It’s not even a treaty, the IWC really started as a trade organization to make sure there was hunting stock. Then came the moratorium Japan never signed, then they started letting in a bunch of non-whaling nations.
I think they don’t go after Norway and Greenland because they’re not so brazen about it. Japan is all “yup, we’re hunting whales, wanna watch”. I think Japan is really making fun of the IWC but nobody seems to get the joke.
It was horrible to watch and a miracle that more of them weren't killed by their own stupidity.
The oceans do not suffer fools, and it was only a matter of time. Never saw a single one of them I'd want to get underway and go to sea with.
The Japanese should have sunk the boat and left the survivors to freeze to death.
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Exactly, estimates are around a million Minkes worldwide, stable populations.
Remember, Minkes are among the smallest of baleen whales, "merely" 10 tons as contrasted to the big Blues nearly 200 tons.
And Blue Whales at maybe 25,000 are still only 10% of their original populations.
Minkes seem to be doing OK and a few hundred harvested by Japanese will make no difference to their population numbers.
As for Sea Shepherds... well the word "quixotic" comes to mind.
I would agree.
Japan does not like to be bossed around.
If the IWC would back off Japan probably would stop whaling.
On the other hand Iceland has recently taken it up again so there has to be some economic motive for it. Beyond a lubricant that worked even in the cold of space.
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