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Jun. 16th, 2005 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishPressure is on to lift whaling ban.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625043.900
Given their track record with quite few of their other fisheries, I'd say the Japanese don't have a leg to stand on. Not only that, but the articles example of the taking of other large mammals is not comparable. I can't think of a single large mammal that is still taken on a commercial basis, for profit, as they are intending. Large terrestrial animals are taken mostly on an individual basis by individuals, who pay a great deal of money in fees and in other costs, and often permits are only issued by lottery.
Even commercial fishing of species such as sharks recently has come under a critical eye because they just don't reproduce themselves enough- this state does not allow landings by longliners fishing within the EEZ because of the bycatch of blue sharks. If sharks can't stand commercial fishing, what does that say for whales, whose reproductive capacity is a lot lower?
I don't see how it could possibly be profitable unless whale meat were sold at a comparable price to, say, precious metals? And no,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cixel, I don't think they're amenable to breeding by humans.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625043.900
Given their track record with quite few of their other fisheries, I'd say the Japanese don't have a leg to stand on. Not only that, but the articles example of the taking of other large mammals is not comparable. I can't think of a single large mammal that is still taken on a commercial basis, for profit, as they are intending. Large terrestrial animals are taken mostly on an individual basis by individuals, who pay a great deal of money in fees and in other costs, and often permits are only issued by lottery.
Even commercial fishing of species such as sharks recently has come under a critical eye because they just don't reproduce themselves enough- this state does not allow landings by longliners fishing within the EEZ because of the bycatch of blue sharks. If sharks can't stand commercial fishing, what does that say for whales, whose reproductive capacity is a lot lower?
I don't see how it could possibly be profitable unless whale meat were sold at a comparable price to, say, precious metals? And no,
cixel, I don't think they're amenable to breeding by humans.
