Final Season?
As a whale meat eater, I say shoot the hippies.
Japan’s whaling industry was dealt its most severe blow by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The entire coastal town of Ayukawa, where much of the industry was located, was destroyed.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110318a7.html
This is the final hunt, one way or another. Given the intense need to shift financial resources to cope with the earthquake and tsunami victims, there is not going to be much sympathy for propping up whaling.
I think the whalers understand that.