You really drank the Kool-Aid, didn't you? There are MANY whale species that are in no danger of any kind, and this "unlimited" hunting you sniffle about has rarely, if ever, had more than a few hundred large ships... WORLD WIDE. Take a look at a globe sometime. See all that blue area? That's called "ocean". Now compare that to the size of Rhode Island... which can easily house more than a thousand larger vessels.
Currently, there are fewer than 50 whaling vessels... WORLD WIDE. Exactly how can you, with a straight face, whimper about "unlimited whaling"?
Now read this:
"Norway registered an objection to the International Whaling Commission moratorium and is thus not bound by it." Nevertheless, Norway VOLUNTARILY ceased Commercial whaling ceased for a five year period "to allow a small scientific catch for gauging the stock's sustainability and resumed 1993."
"Minke whales are the only legally hunted species. Catches have fluctuated between 487 animals in 2000 to 592 in 2007. For the year 2011 the quota is set at 1286 Minke whales. The catch is made solely from the Northeast Atlantic minke whale population, which is estimated at 102,000"
Less than 1.4%, clearly allowing sustainability.
Only one species.
Actual recent catches are about half of the current quota.
You actually, with a straight face, talk about "unlimited whaling"... which has gone on for CENTURIES... and you pretend that somehow, now that it's barely a shadow of what it once was, that NOW it's somehow a danger to the species. Ludicrous.
You're basically admitting that you allow emotional overtures to do your thinking for you. How does it feel to be as easily misled as a Liberal?
You are clearly smarter than I am. I won’t even deign to ask you about the many species which are more plentiful today than they were 100 years ago! I wouldn’t ask you to name even one. Screw ‘em, right? Screw ‘em! Cool. We’re good. Thank goodness there’s some common sense in this forum instead of all that animal lovin’ hippie crap. Hey wait! Viking Kitty Pics comin’ up, bitch!
You are clearly smarter than I am. I won’t even deign to ask you about the many species which are more plentiful today than they were 100 years ago! I wouldn’t ask you to name even one. Screw ‘em, right? Screw ‘em! Cool. We’re good. Thank goodness there’s some common sense in this forum instead of all that animal lovin’ hippie crap. Hey wait! Viking Kitty Pics comin’ up, bitch!
Whaling is wrong. It’s silly. I believe in giving these big animals a break. We don’t need to defend marginal Jap “Whale-burgers” just because we “generally” dislike eco-types. Screw the Japs. They take an astonishing portion of our seafood anyway. Say what you will, I encourage the harassment of whalers.
I am a hunter.
I am a field-dresser and a butcher.
I am a fisherman.
I am a “right winger...”
Whaling is wrong today, and I know a thing or two about it.
I was not speaking of unlimited whaling TODAY, my friend. It is obviously limited today.
But what do all of your exclamations, specific facts (though inreresting), and personal insults have to do with my simple comment?
And why do you care about “international quotas” anyway? Do you respect “international agreements” on whaling? Of course not. Nor do many whalers I imagine.
Nope, my point is simply that I support the harassment of Japanese whalers because I don’t trust them, I don’t like how they and the Russians fish, I don’t like what they’ve done to our own stocks, particularly salmonid pops off the NE and Maritime provinces, and oh yeah -
I personally believe whaling is wrong, so I personally support the Sea Shepherds.
Guess that makes me an “eco-terrorist” or something...
But I believe in right and wrong more than I believe in “international agreements.”
As do you I imagine.
And I also believe that in your heart, you, like any sensible Freeper on this thread, probably agree with me about whales, about whaling, and about harassing the greedy, lawless Japs.