Comments Related To: 'Bycatch' Whaling A Growing Threat To Coastal Whales

More grave concerns for our planet's oceans and wildlife.

People who profit will always find ways around the restrictions laid down in international law, particularly when it comes to the voiceless animals we take so much for granted. Japan should consider how the culture of whaling will continue if in a hundred years there are no whales left.

Whales & dolphins are killed because of greed and people that enjoy
eating whales & dolphins and care not about these creatures. Overfishing from many countries, like the US, will soon wipe out many of our large fish, again, greed and non-thinking folks are the problem.
Can the people of Earth, be that dumb to allow this killing to continue? Write your Senator, write your Congressman, express your thoughts on this subject, please.
JerrySatire
www.Lampoon.net

So, to clarify, "bycatch whaling" is when whales are accidentally killed like in fishing nets? And the issue is that because whales bring in so much money in Asian markets, many fishermen kill the whales on purpose and claim the deaths as "bycatch whaling"?


I think it is very clever that scientists are (is it deductively? or inductively?) using the whale meat in market places to deduce which whales were killed in order to see if they fall under the international agreement of protection. Furthermore, from what I understand of this article, scientists are also able to analyze the whale meat and see if they were killed intentionally or "bycatch"?


Science amazes me, but what really amazes me is how the two completely different disciplines of science and law can combine to solve global problems. Scientists do their part which is the first step -- deciding facts that lawyers or humanitarians then use for the second step -- to push for social change because of the facts.

No sense in giving up on this issue, or are we unlearned and ungrateful for what the creatures of the sea have to offer our world? Remember how to share this space with one another? There are whales who think positive thoughts for humanity. They imagine our hearts resonating to the volume of our hopes being realized. The whales in danger deserve our support and healing thoughtwaves so our kharmic energy will reciprocate the level of respect that we humans and blessed whales deserve all together. What kindness may prevail should we imagine our rainbow energy bouncing back and forth from nation to nation, skipping across the seven seas of the world? With courage we may remember our whales in need and stop all the needless killing so the equilibrium on our planet is restored and harmony is attained. One plea for whales at ease, may we achieve our destiny free of animosity, free of greed, and open to new, peaceful promotions of healthy wildlife.