Good news and wake up call!

[Kpt. Kozloff]

1) As many of you know, due to St. Kitts declaration that was passed in 2006 by IWC, the whalers are out to sea again. On 28th of February 2007 the whaling season was finally over. But next season, the catch is planned to be doubled. This year, at the end of May, the IWC is meeting in Anchorage, USA. I hope that madness will end there.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/whaling-season-over

2) Today in Rome, a Pirate Fishing Blacklist was launched. It's a global online database of illegal, unregulated and unreported vessels.

http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/pirate-fishing-blacklist

[ASWnut101]

So?

[3Jane]

So, if the abuse and destruction of the resources of the sea continue as on the land, things are hardly going to improve are they.

[ASWnut101]

As long as they are doing it in Whaling season, I don't have a problem with it. And hunting endangered species, which I doubt the Japanese company would publicly say, is bad, I guess. A good way to get arrested by the US Coast Guard.:yep:

[Skybird]

Whalers make wonderful targets for submarine excercises. My sympathy for the Norwegians and Japanese concerning this issue, is below nil. Intensive lifestock farming alraedy is a great shame for our species and it's great and wonderful civilization, but whaling in our modern time I consider to be at least as worse. We do not know much about these species - but we know too much about them as that the slaughtering could be excused. Unfortunately, we ruin the rest of the planet anyway, so it probably is only a question of time until these species also are successfully neutralized.

[Letum]

I have no problem with well managed whaling.