Fishing is a barbarous practice?
I know a whale isn't a fish, of course.
A whale is a mammal, just like a cow, or a deer, or even a dog (in certain cultures) which man sometimes chooses to eat.
Even though I, for instance, would never eat a dog, I would not impulsively criminalize the practice by those human carnivores who don't share my opinion.
As long as it wasn't endangering the species outright, I'd eat gator meat, and I'd eat whale meat...
Like I said, if it actually isn’t illegal, then I have no serious problems with it. I wouldn’t bomb people who eat dogs, though I would call them backward.