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Is there any justification at all for taking whales? Do they provide anything for which they are the sole source? I know little, if anything, about whaling but have often wondered why anyone does it anymore.

In AK, natives in the Arctic still hunt whale as a primary food source and have for centuries. You see them in town selling baleen and bone carvings to tourists, which gets them a fair amount of money. They are not out slaughtering them by the hundreds.

I have not seen it yet, but have been told that going to Barrow to see a whale haul is one of the most amazing things you can witness.

84 posted on 07/02/2008 1:38:54 PM PDT by proud_yank (Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)

“I have not seen it yet, but have been told that going to Barrow to see a whale haul is one of the most amazing things you can witness.”

Guess you would have enjoyed watching the games at the Colosseum too.

These people don’t need to slaughter whales to survive. Its a cultural thing, not a survival issue.

87 posted on 07/02/2008 1:51:40 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)