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Originally Posted by rubenandthejets
Most whale watching is done close to the NZ and Australin coasts.
Whales are migratory-they swim north in the Antarctic winter and have their babies in the waters around 35-25 degrees S. The whale watching boats (ironically following the same routes as the old shore based longboat whalers) stay within sight of land.
While your checking the details of the money generated by te whalng industry here, please remember to deduct the massive subsidies that the Japanese goverment pays to tiny natios on the IWC to bribe them into tacit support of their continued "scientific" whaling program.
Any way you want to do the math, it will always come out in the red.
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Now there's a idea. Go after the whale watching industry! Think about it, whales migrate. Moving in proximity to one or a "pod' of them could be deemed to be interfering with a migrating species. I believe that's a violation of the Migratory Species Act. Use the law against the very people who lobbied for it!!!
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