Whale Wars

[A Very Super Market]

Of course not full-time hunting, thats absurd. Full-time hunting is what brought them down in the first place. The current whaling situation is very sustainable, fact is, the only populations that aren't rebounding are ones that live in high-traffic areas like the US East coast. Collisions, tangling, and other human mishaps bring down more unintended whales than poaching.

As for the JMSDF, I know its a joke, just saying that missile strikes on a dinky little thing like the Irwin might end up killing whales anyways. What exactly is in those things?

The same reason whales don't tend to die from explosive-harpoons is the same reason drugs would be ineffective, too large. Lethal injection for humans costs 86 dollars. (Not counting court costs ) Mature Minke whales (Most numerous) are like, 5-8 tons, so they weigh 10,000-16,000 pounds and are 50-80 times the size of a human. Assuming that most lethal injectees are at least 200 pounds, it would cost $4300-6880 for enough poison. Doesn't seem like much? Poison takes time to circulate through the body, and attacked whales will dive, so you need to fire multiple harpoons at them, which aren't very accurate, coupled with a limited quota for whales. Not very enticing. With exploding ones, a good shot at a crippled one will mercy-kill it at least. I don't think using cyanide would be very humane either.

We don't really eat whale meat, its mostly for the oil and blubber