Reply #188: so we should just let them harvest whatever they want [View All]

wherever they want.

Nice. I am a rabid conservationist. While I don't support illicit activity from conservationists, I won't tolerate it from commercial whalers. Or their supporters.

It's a limited resource. Japan particularly has an open disregard for international law, shared waters, sanctuary designations, breeding seasons, age, and endangered species.

They routinely lie about their commercial sales and invoke a scientific loophole by calling it "scientific" whaling, and we think that long term economic sanctions are going to discourage them from reducing whale populations? Short of physical assault, whaling operations in international waters will always be unchallenged because of international treaties that would make such a challenge by another government an act of war.

This is YET ANOTHER loophole that Japan and Norway exploit.