Japan’s Whaling.
My third blog is coming to the subject of the opposers to the Sea Shepards, the Japanese and their Government’s view on Whaling. They say that Whaling is a tradition among the Japanese and it is loved country-wide. Although according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the industry only shipped 5k tons in 2011, where as 233k tons in 1962, when whaling was as it’s maximum in the Japanese people’s support. I don’t see much support and tradition in those numbers but they are consistent in funding the ‘Research’ program on whales. The IWC says itself, “Japan exploits a loophole in IWC legislation, and has never stopped killing whales despite the Moratorium. They simply assign themselves a permit to undertake ‘scientific whaling’ (ie. killing whales for the purpose of scientific research) and continue hunting whales as before.” It hurts me that the Whaling Commission in itself is not able to and/or willing to, I do not know the situation completely, stop the Japanese from killing such innocent and beautiful creatures that already have such falling numbers as these Whales. I mean if you actually look a where this whale meat is going it is to the market and in these Japanese peoples diets, They make a profit and that is why they keep it going. The IWC also says, “Japanese claim to be undertaking research by killing whales. However, most of the data collected by the Japanese ‘Scientific whaling’ programme is not required for management or conservation of whale stocks and is never published in reputable scientific journals.” Like what? How is this still going on?
Whales are a huge part in our oceans food chain. “A blue whale for example can consume as much as 40 million krill per day so you can imagine the impact this would have on stabilizing the aquatic eco system if the blue whale species were to become extinct.” Says WhaleFacts.org. For every whale that is killed that is literally 40 million times that number of krill extra a day, these aquatic animals are born in mass by minutes and would result in a krill-tastrophe. So as you can see this Japanese Research is complete bologna, and should be stopped so our oceans don’t fill with krill and disappear of that Carbon rich whale poop.
