Humpback whale washes up on Oak Island beach

It is illegal where they hunt them. They are not hunting them in their waters they are hunting them in Australian waters where there is a ban on whaling. Feel free to do all the research you can and you will find that it is icredibally unhealthy for the japanese to eat the whales. Many of their childre are born with brain disorders linked to the mercury in the whale meat. I am really dissapointed in the amount of people who believe it is OK to kill a whale, also the whales autopsy is linking it pollution so far.

Home > Media Center > Press Releases U.S. Plan to Expand Whaling Released 2 February 2009 (Yarmouth Port, MA - USA) - Documents released today by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) confirm the United State’s leadership in negotiations to undo the global moratorium on commercial whaling and extend unprecedented authorization to the Government of Japan to kill whales off its coastline and in international waters. "The plan released today is a bad deal for whales and international efforts to protect them" said Patrick Ramage, IFAW Global Whale Program Director. "It would lift the commercial whaling moratorium; give new rights to the Government of Japan to kill protected whales, and permit illegal, high-seas whaling to continue. Rather than compromising hard-won conservation measures and finding ways for whaling to expand, the IWC and its member governments should be negotiating the terms under which Japan, Norway and Iceland will end their commercial whaling activities." Longtime Bush Administration appointee Dr. William Hogarth currently serves as U.S. Commissioner and Chairman of the 84-nation International Whaling Commission. In early 2008, Dr. Hogarth and the Japanese Vice-Chair initiated a series of closed-door meetings designed to forge a compromise with Japan, one of only three IWC member nations still whaling. A “small working group” of IWC member countries met behind closed doors in St. Pete Beach, Florida in September and again in Cambridge, England in early December 2008. Dr. Hogarth reconvened a drafting group of countries this past weekend in Hawaii to fine-tune the compromise deal released by the IWC today. Text drafted by U.S., Japanese and other commissioners engaged in the IWC “Small Working Group” process contemplates legitimizing Japan's ongoing scientific whaling in international waters -- including an internationally recognized whale sanctuary -- as well as extending long-sought authorization to Japan to kill protected whales in its coastal waters. “This is not the first issue on the new Obama administration's agenda, but it is perhaps one of the most fundamental and fastest to fix,” Ramage said. “The time has come to end the drift in U.S. policy on whaling and renew America’s conservation leadership.” Since the global ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Japan has claimed its whaling operations are conducted for scientific research purposes. Japan has killed more than 15,000 whales since the whaling ban and has threatened to begin killing humpback whales if the IWC does not bow to its wishes and approve commercial whaling. Additional information is available at www.stopwhaling.org

The International Whaling Commision has had closed door meetings in Florida in June and then the UK in December to change the laws and allow whaling in the Atlantic Ocean. Check out ifaw.org It won't be hard for the initial legislation to be passed because people won't know about it in time. Also check mindsinthewater.com and of course seashepherd.com I really hope people don't accept whaling as an OK form of hunting it is the same as killing dolphins and sea turtles for food which also happens all over the world. To me it is incredibally inhumane Unfortunately people keep a blind eye to these things.

All you can eat at the lucky fisherman

Whales have very high levels of toxic man-made chemicals stored in their blubber and meat. Given how insensitive and inconsiderate you are, I would recommend that you eat as much whale meat as you possibly can.