Posted on 07/21/2010 7:49:38 PM PDT by sinanju
"..But the larger question is: Why does anyone bother to hunt whales anymore? The economics of whale hunting are simply dismal. No whaling nation profits from it. Japans annual, much-criticized Antarctic hunt hasnt involved private capital for years. As Leape notes: Japans is a very small industry, employing less than 1,000 people, catching many more whales than they can sell. They try to promote it with school children and free-whale-meat days and its not catching on.
In Norway, although government-subsidized coastal whalers have missed their annual quota nine times in the last decade, blubber stockpiles mount as consumers ignore state-backed ad campaigns for burgers, ham, and pastrami made of whale. The government cut off subsidies that paid for the whalers inspection program, leaving only an electronic system that the IWC deems unacceptable, according to Sink or Swim: The Economics of Whaling today, a 2009 study by the Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society.
That came weeks after Icelands Ministry for Fisheries & Agriculture announced that a report it had commissioned from the University of Icelands Institute of Economic Studies (neither the institute nor the ministry have posted it) said that the economically devastated country could benefit from killing 300 whales annually. Conceding that direct whaling profits were not quantifiable, the study attributed most of the projected gain to $94 million in additional fish that it estimated would be caught if some whales were killed, according to Iceland Review online."
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“.. the whole concept of whaling in todays world is idiotic and indefensible.”
Hello to all my Inuit and Japanese friends, Wendy1946 wants you all to become scumbags in Harlem. She knows better than you, so give up your ancient heritage - Wendy1946 says it’s idiotic and indefensible. Got that?
If some whales are becoming extinct they should be protected. I am for a controlled harvest.
They aren’t becoming extinct.
They are washing up on beaches all the time.
I haven’t yet, thanks for sharing it! For a short video, he nails it.
Felix the Cat Gum????
I want some !!!
They are not hunting endangered whales, so that is not a concern. My question is really more about how many people are against hunting whales period, like they are special place in the galactic universe or something.
Your screen name hearkens of the proud Yankee past of whaling. It was an industry like no other, and gave rise to folklore, legend and literature for the ages.
The Biblical scope of whaling is not lost in Melville’s writings.
Job 3:8
May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
Are you up for a Nantucket sleigh ride?
I’ve been curious about it for a while, and didn’t have the chance until today. If you get the chance, don’t pass it up!
Friends regularly get cold-smoked salmon from the lower Yukon that is pretty good.
Besides they let the last one they caught rot on a beach because no one liked the taste.
Makah. Blah.
Sing all ye young men,
Of Nantucket sleigh-rides,
Of white, foam-flecked faces
As grim as the sea...
(Lyrics to a song I once knew about that period of time...)
the infowarrior
Whales in international waters belong to everyone, and if we all killed as many as Japan there would be none left.
Japan has continually behaved in a sleazy manner about whaling and I for one vote for Paul Watson on this issue.
And it was indeed from Japan. So they are hunting and killing endangered whales.
Something about being hitched to a pissed-off whale in the dark in an open dingy in the deep just pulls your gonads up around your throat.
That was from reading about it....
Yep...
Another part of that same song goes...
A Nantucket sleigh-ride,
Lasts hours, and lifetimes,
You'll return to Nantucket,
Or else, you'll be dead...
Very dangerous occupation, back in the day, and I doubt its all that much safer now...
the infowarrior
Let’s just slaughter every animal on earth and be done with it. Then we can just kill each other. Nothing on earth can think and feel except us. Central park wilders. Muslim honor killers. Southern lynchers. Nazi death camp organizers. Soviet collectivizers. US native american eradicators. Hutu slaughterers of the Tutsi. The list goes on and on. Awesome sauce we are indeed.
HERE’S MY FAVORITE!
“My question is really more about how many people are against hunting whales period, like they are special place in the galactic universe or something.”
By your logic, exactly what special place in the “galactic universe” do you assign to the human species? I’ll refer you to the acclaimed Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man”. Don’t worry ... the Kanamits would probably spit you out.
Just for the fun of it.
Used to live in Japan, where the people DO eat whale meat. The author is blowing smoke out his *ss.
Whale sashimi is a delicacy.
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