Reality of Whaling - Part 2

PART TWO of TWO

Norway:
They hunt over 1000 minke whales a year in international waters. For the past 15 years not once has Norway fulfilled their quota due to lack of whales. Norway also illegally exports whale meat to Iceland and the Faroes.

Iceland:
They hunt servel hundred whales a year. Including endangered ones. Iceland often hunts the second biggest whale in the world - the 'Fin'. It is highly endangered and is on critical red.

Whale Watching:
WHALE and dolphin watching is one of the fastest growing industries in the Pacific, injecting millions of dollars into local economies, a new report shows.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) report shows whale watching is worth $23 million a year to small Pacific nations.

The number of people in the region watching the marine mammals has jumped an average 45 per cent each year.

There were just 10,309 whale and dolphin watchers in Pacific island nations in 1998, but that figure had risen to 110,716 in 2005.
The figures released today exclude Australian and New Zealand data, although earlier research showed about 1.6 million people watch whales and dolphins in Australia annually, in an industry worth about $273 million each year.

Former New Zealand minister and International Whaling Commission (IWC) delegate Jim McClay opened the IFAW meeting today in Auckland.

He said each humpback whale which visited Tonga was worth about $US1 million ($A1.1 million) to the local economy during a 15-year period and urged Japan to stop hunting the mammals.

"Whales are worth more alive than dead,'' he said.

Japan has been accused of using aid money to bribe Pacific nations including the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Palau and the Marshall Islands in exchange for support at IWC meetings.

Solomon Islands conservation officer Jointly Sisiolo, who is attending the meeting, said his government would be more willing to support whale conservation if whale-based tourism increased.

"I would prefer it (whaling) to stop completely. That is my position. I want to see it stop, and to promote tourism," Sisiolo said.

"The Japanese are going against how most of us Pacific islanders look at whaling. They are killing whales. We are looking at trying to conserve them."

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[dougme27]

hmmm,i reckon they should make more areas marine sanctuary.then they grow more whale and then everyones happy.

[fred100446]

It may seem that simple, problem is its more complex then that.

Japan bloc votes all sanctuary proposals and the current ones set up in the IWC, like the Antarctic Whale Sanctuarty, they still violate it and whale within its limits. Why is it even still called a sanctuary?

If anything is gonig to clear the IWC of this blockage, Japan must obey the existing sanctuaries, otherwise any sort of diplomatic solution is not going to work, as we are seeing now.

[irrah77]

I think they kill them for food just like in Japan. But they are full of mercury. I wouldn't eat them.

[RecentlySeen]

WHALING IS A FEDERAL CRIME IN US:

U.S. GPO Access [CITATION: 50CF-R230.3]

CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE (NMS), NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION (NOAA), DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC)

"It is unlawful for a person to: engage in whaling in violation of the US Convention, IWC regulations, commit an Act or breach US Commerce regulations; to ship, transport, purchase, sell, offer for sale, import, export or possess a whale or whale meat products."

[road1n]

Is there any way I could fire that gun?

[CH1LLL]

i loved the way the video finishes with all the flags AGAINST whaling,check out the video ive done about whaling and seal hunting if u like,i wish i could kik every whalers head in f*****ng bastards i hate uuuuu alllll

[sisutrucks]

well look it up yourself, native tribes in america are allowed to hunt whales.

[rathor1622]

again you didn't listen. Say what you want. You will always think you're right. Before you say what you "know" to be true look some stuff up.

[WildernessRanger291]

In NORWAY, where this guy " Kristian Jorsalfare " lives, Norwegians according to Law permit "Animal Rape".

Each year veterinarians report to authorities hundreds of cases of animals whose vaginas/genitals have been "damaged" due to Norwegian men having intercourse with them. Pets & Farm animals.

Norway also "permits" whaling. So this gives you an idea of the kind of things people like KristianJorsalfare and Norwegian men do, and an example of the things they allow to go on in their country.

[sisutrucks]

wanna bet on that?.

[rathor1622]

LOL> you're.... screw it you wont listen. Learn to spell and america doesn't hunt whales. Bigot.