Sea Shepards ram Japanese whaling ship

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So long as there are sufficient stocks, I'm happy for any number of whales to
be slaughters for any reason.

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

That's the reasoning that nearly wiped them out the first time. Whales, like all mammals, have a much slower rate of population growth than, say, fish, reptiles or insects.

Ecologically, mammals are rather delicate.

"So long as there are sufficient stocks"
i.e. so long as the population can sustain the volume of harvest.

That was not the case in the past and was certainly not the reasoning that
lead to the decline of whales.


If Dodos where hunted "So long as there are sufficient stocks" we would
still have Dodos today.