What is your opinion on the whale conservation group sea shepherd?
Other conservation groups will protest whaling and thats about it. This group will actually go out onto the waters and defend whales with a ship against japanese whalers. Is this insane or is the next logical step in conservation? What are your thoughts?www.seashepherd.org
Both sides of the Whaling issue are nutzz! First of all you have Japanese whalers who insist that they must do it to provide food for their people, but sales of whale are way down. In fact the number 1 salable product of whaling is the skeleton which is sold to museums. Japanese people do not want to buy or eat whale meat. They want chicken and beef just like the rest of us. Whaling in Japan will die out due to lack of interest.
Second, you have the conservation groups who use up tons of money, time and fuel to stop whalers from doing their job. For what? 10 times more whales die from beaching themselves than die at the hands of hunters.
What we really need is a Whaling Company that will go to where a whale has beached itself and kill that one rather than rushing all over the oceans wasting fuel and time. The conservation groups can help by notifying the whalers of impending deaths.
This makes a lot more sense than trying to stop the hunters and burying the beached whales.