And Ice Cream!
Posted on 07/21/2010 7:49:38 PM PDT by sinanju
"..But the larger question is: Why does anyone bother to hunt whales anymore? The economics of whale hunting are simply dismal. No whaling nation profits from it. Japan’s annual, much-criticized Antarctic hunt hasn’t involved private capital for years. As Leape notes: “Japan’s is a very small industry, employing less than 1,000 people, catching many more whales than they can sell. They try to promote it with school children and free-whale-meat days and it’s not catching on.”
In Norway, although government-subsidized coastal whalers have missed their annual quota nine times in the last decade, blubber stockpiles mount as consumers ignore state-backed ad campaigns for burgers, ham, and pastrami made of whale. The government cut off subsidies that paid for the whalers’ inspection program, leaving only an electronic system that the IWC deems unacceptable, according to “Sink or Swim: The Economics of Whaling today,” a 2009 study by the Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society.
That came weeks after Iceland’s Ministry for Fisheries & Agriculture announced that a report it had commissioned from the University of Iceland’s Institute of Economic Studies (neither the institute nor the ministry have posted it) said that the economically devastated country could benefit from killing 300 whales annually. Conceding that direct whaling profits were not quantifiable, the study attributed most of the projected gain to $94 million in additional fish that it estimated would be caught if some whales were killed, according to Iceland Review online."
(Excerpt) Read more at thebigmoney.com ...
The whole ocean is their toilet. That’s why it’s so salty.
Use whale blubber to power generators. Both problems solved.
Good, when there are a lot of boats out in a pod of whales.
And Ice Cream!
However, having been downwind of a California grey whale spouting, Flipper has breath that will make your eyes water. The OKC Stockyards smell better.
The reason that the Japanese keep killing Whales is to provide the (unlicensed) Captain Watson of the Sea Shepards with an antagonist for the Whale Wars TV show. There is big money in TV shows.
For tasty whale recepies, photos of whale-meat dishes, and even whale-cooking instructional videos. (Norwegian language site)
Are you kidding??
Have you ever heard a whale song? It is worthless music with no real rhythm, tempo, lyrics, etc.
For this reason alone, their numbers should be limited!
Plus, they are big game and trophies for hunters.
Of course, we should harvest them sustainably...
ampu
“No One Eats Whales. Why Does Anyone Kill Them? “
Interesting.
So the Japanese, the Norwegians, and the Inuit and the Yupik are “no one”?
Have they got the memo yet do you think?
It’s on other threads and in the news. The follow up shots from Yahoo show what happened to the boat. It was off South Africa. The steel hull was fine but the masts/topside was trashed. The whale swam away.
And what did you think?
Better that raw Octopus?
“Werd!”
Aha! It's your fault!
Sort of like a submarine vuvuzela ...
I’m more than OK with shutting ALL of those down by cutting them off from the govt teat...
What is that?
Whale Ice Cream
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