Latest Whale Hunt Seasons Catch Short of Target
Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:53 am
From, posted April 13 2009:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/200941372250966811.html
"Japan's whaling fleet has returned to its home port after violent clashes with anti-whaling activists damaged its ships and left the Antarctic hunting season's catch well short of its target, officials have said.
Officials said the six vessels had caught 679 minke whales and one fin whale during its five-month hunt, short of the targeted 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales in the hunt that began in November."
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(Those figures don't represent "well short", for mine, btw.)
It wasn't just "damaged ships" that caused this.
The mere presence, chasing, causing whaling vessels (from any country, by the way) to use up significant time & resources to try and escape & avoid the regions in which environmental protection vessels were in played a big part.
And, too, the whaling vessels looking to avoid (international) media scrutiny.
We can almost say it has been a job well done, with some positive success, by the environmental protection groups.
Unfortunately, too many whales have still been unnecessarily & inhumanely slaughtered.
An interesting positive effect of these whaling fleet chases is the similarities between the whales trying to escape slaughter when they sense harpoons coming at them, and the whaling fleets trying to escape environmental protection groups.
Kinda giving them a dose of what they are trying to do - 'cept the whaling vessels are not trying to be harpooned and slaughtered inhumanely.
...Perhaps the stakes should be raised, I hear there are a few pirates out of business these days - toss a few million $ under the table to a few of them and make the hunters become the truly hunted?
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/04/200941372250966811.html
"Japan's whaling fleet has returned to its home port after violent clashes with anti-whaling activists damaged its ships and left the Antarctic hunting season's catch well short of its target, officials have said.
Officials said the six vessels had caught 679 minke whales and one fin whale during its five-month hunt, short of the targeted 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales in the hunt that began in November."
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(Those figures don't represent "well short", for mine, btw.)
It wasn't just "damaged ships" that caused this.
The mere presence, chasing, causing whaling vessels (from any country, by the way) to use up significant time & resources to try and escape & avoid the regions in which environmental protection vessels were in played a big part.
And, too, the whaling vessels looking to avoid (international) media scrutiny.
We can almost say it has been a job well done, with some positive success, by the environmental protection groups.
Unfortunately, too many whales have still been unnecessarily & inhumanely slaughtered.
An interesting positive effect of these whaling fleet chases is the similarities between the whales trying to escape slaughter when they sense harpoons coming at them, and the whaling fleets trying to escape environmental protection groups.
Kinda giving them a dose of what they are trying to do - 'cept the whaling vessels are not trying to be harpooned and slaughtered inhumanely.
...Perhaps the stakes should be raised, I hear there are a few pirates out of business these days - toss a few million $ under the table to a few of them and make the hunters become the truly hunted?