Greenpeace says it witnessed the main whaling ship the Nisshin Maru depart from a port near Hiroshima in Western Japan thought to be heading for the Southern Ocean. Read more here.
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Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
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Hello I am one of the animal planet veiwers and from the show Whale Wars I do think that killing whales is a crule punishment for these amazing animal. The sea sheperds are my hero’s because they stop the japan’s. I just fell like it is good to share how I fell about this problem and I hope it will stop.
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keep up your great work sea sheperd
People eating whales isn’t a problem.
Whales eating people isn’t a problem.
Read about the man behind the grenade harpoon and large scale industrial whaling that lead to near extinction of many whales.
There were also anti whaling activists in 1870.
At my blog :
http://annimal.bloggsida.se/diverse/whaling-history-svend-foyn-part-ii
Industrial whaling in 1870 was totally different endeavor than current whaling for food.
Don’t you think it’s a little bad form to be perpetually using this blog to post links to your own blog?
Why not post the gist of it here (if it’s relevant)?
“Industrial whaling in 1870 was totally different endeavor than current whaling for food.”
Truly? I thought they could go to the local supermarket then too and stock up on food from around the world, take advantage of tourists and choose to live a different life if the whim or necessity took them.
Ann good for you using this blog to divert people to yours. After all, just to the right is a list of blogs Jennifer reads with links, and other people are forever linking to blogs and causes that support their own views.
First, I have no objection to Ann posting links to her website. Ann also knows very well that she and I see some things differently. For example:
The invention of the grenade harpoon did massively increase the whale kill to the point that they quickly became scarce, and whale oil became very expensive. Supply and demand. Whale oil was used mainly for lighting houses and European and US streets. Night lighting improved public safely, and quality of life.
Then one John D Rockefeller found that an oil waste product (kerosene) made a good cheap substitute for the increasingly expensive whale oil. The rest is history. The worldwide whaling industry crashed and withered. Activists did not have a chance of saving these magnificent creatures until a much cheaper alternative had wrecked the blubber market.
The big fight to save whales is over, their numbers are increasing and they are safe. We now have relatively tiny skirmishes to stop hunting whales for meat consumption. The end result of these skirmishes will not make much difference now to the long term survival of the whales, particularly as the whaling nations are in conference with anti-whaling nations and NGO’s, and that pressure will ensure sustainable (less than natural increase) quotas to the kill. Keep talking fellas.
Not all whale species are “safe.” The fight to save these species from shipping, pollution, habitat degradation and entanglement is far from over. There are also many populations and species we know very little about. Some species and populations have recovered well from industrial whaling.
Ann, keep promoting your site.
Thanks Helen, Libby and Uzi for your support!
To IceClass!
I have posted links to Jennifer’s site at least 3 times ( and NOT to my own blog posts).
FYI , the first time I read about the book on Svend Foyn, the man behind the grenade harpoon and a somewhat critical article about industrial whaling , was actually in LOFOTPOSTEN, the very paper for Norwegian whalers. I think the Norwegians are worth a hat tip fot this book and their transparency in this case about ancient whaling.
As many maybe have noticed I’m all for a dialogue with the whalers , and whalers like Tokyo David , and Laila , Secretary for the HNA have participated at my blog as well as Aussie anti whalers like Libby!