Whale Wars

[bianco]

Japan’s annual Antarctic hunt is controversial because it technically invades Australian waters and catch Australian whales without the government's permission. The previous Labour government ended up siding with environmental activists who became famous through a TV programme called "Whale Wars" and whaling in general has become increasingly obsolete and illegitimate in recent years in the eyes of the TV audience. Japan could still run a smaller scientific programme in the northern Pacific, while abiding by the ICJ's ruling, and Australia's Sea Shepherd would not challenge Japan's indigenous whaling done in its own waters. The consumption of whale meat has dwindled over the last decade and more than 2,300 minke whales worth of meat is sitting in freezers. Japan should scale down its whaling operations dramatically without worrying about protecting jobs in the whaling industry and it no longer makes economic sense to catch more than 1,000 whales per annum due to low demand.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jGTFiEnRPY

JAPAN says it is cancelling its annual Antarctic whaling hunt for the first time in more than a quarter of a century in line with a UN court ruling. A “deeply disappointed” Tokyo earlier this week said it would honour Tuesday’s judgment by the United Nations’ Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the program was a commercial activity disguised as science. Tokyo, however, did not exclude the possibility of future whaling programs. Today, officials said the next Antarctic hunt, which would have started in late 2014, had been scrapped, just weeks after the most recent one finished. “We have decided to cancel research whaling (in the Antarctic) for the fiscal year starting in April because of the recent ruling,” a fisheries agency official said. But he added that “we plan to go ahead with research whaling in other areas as scheduled”, including the northern Pacific. Japan also has a coastal whaling program that is not covered by a commercial whaling ban.
Japan cancels annual Antarctic whaling hunt after UN court ruling | News.com.au

Of course Japan does.

I'm surprised it decided to even abide by the ICJ's ruling at all.

It'll continue slaughtering whales in the northern Pacific, and all its like-minded best-friend lovers of slaughtering whales will continue supporting it.
All the ones who vote with it at the IWC meetings.

They all stand condemned.

The whale and dolphin wars continue ...not sure what if anythng Sea Shepherd can do about it...that US Court is after them.

 

[Deep]

What's wrong with eating whale meat while it's OK to eat, say, tuna?
Will you stop telling others what they should not eat?

 

[bianco]

What's wrong with eating whale meat while it's OK to eat, say, tuna?
Will you stop telling others what they should not eat?

To eat whale meat Japan has to torture the whales to death for a very long time.

The whales Japan was torturing to death in Antartica were 'Australian' whales...in Australia's whale sanctuary, hence all the outrage from Australia.
Much of the rest of the world couldn't have cared less...obviously all the ones who voted with Japan, and ones who allowed themselves to be bullied by Japan.

Australia has whale watching, not whale slaughtering...so Japan was told to f off out of Antarctica...it took no notice...hence the ICJ action.
We'll see come Dec next if Japan abides by the court's ruling or not.

Ditto dolphins...Japan should be stopped from torturing them to death also.

 

[Deep]

Bianco,

I'm asking what's wrong with eating whale meat which belong to the *public* sea.
Nobody thinks it's OK to eat whale meat which belong to other nations' territories.
Again, stop telling others what they should not eat, will you?

 

[bianco]

Bianco,

I'm asking what's wrong with eating whale meat which belong to the *public* sea.
Nobody thinks it's OK to eat whale meat which belong to other nations' territories.
Again, stop telling others what they should not eat, will you?

Oh yes they do...seem to.

. Most of Japan
. Everyone who supports Japan's whaling
. Some people in this forum
. etc

Many people object to whales being tortured to death by those who would eat their meat.
Others just call it 'fishing'.

Many people object to Japan's slaughtering of dolphins.
Others just call it 'fishing'.

Many people oblect to the torturing to death of dogs in Asia, bashed with iron bars then finished off with electric prods...so Korean etc men can feel virile.
Others just call it a 'meat market'.

 

[Deep]

Oh yes they do...seem to. Everyone who supports Japan's whaling[UNQUOTE]

Evidences?

 

[bianco]

Oh yes they do...seem to. Everyone who supports Japan's whaling[UNQUOTE]

Evidences?

If they support Japan's whaling program then they support Japan's slaughtering of whales in Antarctica.
If they didn't support Japan's slaughtering of whales in Antarctica...for 'research' LOL...then they wouldn't be supporting Japan's whaling program.

Most in Japan support it, by their silence and lack of protests.

 

[Deep]

If they support Japan's whaling program then they support Japan's slaughtering of whales in Antarctica.[UNQUOTE]

Not necessarily.
It was forbidden by International Court of Justice in March, 2014.
Though not everybody thought the decision was right, the Japanese government decided to comply with it.
That being said, is Antarctica Australia's territory?

 

[bianco]

Australian Whale Sanctuary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Australian Whale Sanctuary was established in 1999 to protect dolphins and whales from hunting.[1] The non-contiguous zone includes the Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which is the area 200 nautical miles (370 km) surrounding the continent of Australia and its external dependencies such as Christmas Island (in the Indian Ocean), Cocos (Keeling) Island, Norfolk Island, Heard Island and Macdonald Island. It also includes the EEZ around the Australian Antarctic Territory which is only recognised by United Kingdom, New Zealand, France and Norway.[2]

The Sanctuary is the scene of an ongoing controversy between Australia and Japan over whaling. In 2008 the Australian Federal Court ruled it was illegal under Australian law for the Japanese whaling fleet to kill whales in the Sanctuary.[3]

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Anyway...Japan is nowhere near Antarctica, so Japan should not be coming anywhere near Australia and Antartica killing whales or dolphins.
Just a pity Australia only has a paltry military armed with 'popguns', 'toy ships', and 'second rate planes'...or else if could've policed its whale sanctuary with force.

 

[Unkotare]

Food is food, and the mewling of some backward sandbox of a 'country' like Australia won't have a damn thing to do with it.

 

[Deep]

the Australian Antarctic Territory which is only recognized by United Kingdom, New Zealand, France and Norway.[UNQUOTE]

In other words, it is not authorized by the international community.
Anyway, the territorial dispute between Australia and Japan became irrelevant to the whaling problem because of the International Court's decision.

 

[bianco]

the Australian Antarctic Territory which is only recognized by United Kingdom, New Zealand, France and Norway.[UNQUOTE]

In other words, it is not authorized by the international community.
Anyway, the territorial dispute between Australia and Japan became irrelevant to the whaling problem because of the International Court's decision.

It was Australia who took Japan to the International Court...as a last resort.
Most of the so called 'International community' couldn't have cared less, it seems.