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Compromise Would Legalize Commercial Whaling

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Posted on Jun 21, 2010
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The international community has totally failed to convince Japan, Iceland and Norway to stop hunting whales, including those facing extinction. A new proposal would allow the rogue nations to drop the pretense of scientific research in exchange for a reduction in kills, but environmentalists are skeptical.

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IWC Chairman Cristian Maquieira published his proposal in April to bring the three whaling nations back under the agency’s control by allowing them to hunt commercially under closely monitored quotas.

Advocates say 5,000 whales will be saved over the 10-year life of the deal. Opponents question that claim, and say the proposal would legitimize hunting for profit and throw a lifeline to a dying industry that has constant confrontations with environmental groups on the world’s oceans.

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Samson's avatar

By Samson, June 21, 2010 at 9:31 am Link to this comment

Way to go Obama ... another great environmental victory notch on his belt.

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By G.Anderson, June 21, 2010 at 7:27 am Link to this comment

When all the trees have been cut down,?when all the animals have been hunted,?when all the waters are polluted,? when all the air is unsafe to breathe,?only then will you discover you cannot eat money. ~ Cree Prophecy

We’re well on our way..

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By GoyToy, June 21, 2010 at 6:07 am Link to this comment

Well said, Mr. Wexler.

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By William W. Wexler, June 21, 2010 at 5:25 am Link to this comment

Whaling is to scientific research what Mengele’s experiments were to medicine.

Norsk folk: Slutt å drepe whales!

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By samosamo, June 21, 2010 at 1:59 am Link to this comment

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One thing I am looking forward to, are these nations in their
quest to eradicate, in the name of food, the animals in the
oceans, mammals, fish, shell fish, the whole lot of it and then try
to explain in bp style excuses as to their reasoning of doing such
a disastrous thing. I mean, we aren’t trying to feed just a few
members of a community, no at all, when the massive fishing
trawlers being used net and catch and everything they can.

No doubt they will all have some beauts or something like tony
haywire’s ‘don’t know’, I wasn’t in the decision’, other people
were handling it’ kind of crap.

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