Reply #44: There is plenty of research that goes on without killing them [View All]

Satellite tags. And the also study the ones that wash up on the beach occasionally.

The "research" is just so they can get around the ban, which only allows subsistence whaling and whaling for research. But they are not doing actual research.

Also Japan and Norway pay off small Caribbean countries to get their votes on the IWC. I read somewhere that the island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines also engage in "subsistence" whaling. They are allowed 1 a year. I think it is probably a fraud. I have never heard of any tropical nation or people engaging in whaling in history. Usually when I think of whaling people, I think of the Inuits, some West Coast tribes, Japan but definitely not small tropical islands. At least I have never heard of Carib peoples whaling. Fishing, yes.