I disagree they target only Japanese fishermen. I disagree they made a TV show that target ONLY Japenese and I disagree they don't mention any other culture that had done similar damage. Show like this may bring awareness to the world about the issue but also sterotype who's causing the most damage. If I peel the onion, it felt like watching survior or something like that, not a real documentary without prejudiced.
Exactly what brings out nationalism which further pushes back the agenda of changing the Japanese attitude. Also remember that Japan only followed the moratorium because Reagan threatened to remove fishing rights in Alaskan waters via the Packwood-Magnuson and Pelly amendents. After they signed, the allocations were reduced anyhow. It's always be suggested that the Japanese started the "scientific" whaling program only after the quota's on the Alaskan Pollock fisheries dwindled to half in 2 years. On top of that was the Reagan era of anti-Japanese sentiment due to the Japanese industries outcompeting US industries.
It's really not as simple as the NGOs like Sea Shepard and Greenpeace claim, since they had a hand in how the cards were dealt:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6659401.stm
A friend of mind told me once why some whales killing happen in the Japan sea, he said it was because whales ate a lot of fishes, so tuna, hamachi, etc became so little or hard to find and tuna, yellow tail etc are the one they eat most, not whales ! So whales inbalance their eco-system so they have no fish to eat ! So farm raise appears to be the solution or kill some ....
I've only heard of orca eating tuna. The Norwegians target the minke because they compete on the herring. I suppose tuna fry is plankton but I think that's a stretch for baleen whales. Still the real problem is like 99.9% of other countries, the Japanese have mismanaged up their fisheries. That's why their arm spreads across the Pacific and Indian Ocean. It's a resource grab.
Now then I read something about farm raise shark in Australia for sharks fin purpose and they are consider curel and wrong, etc etc. I am confuse. Should we all become vegetarian or something and we can have world peace ?We raise cow, pig, chicken, fish as part of our regular food chain, why is it so wrong to farm raise sharks for fin and their meat too. Why is it so wrong to reduce whales population if they are indeed in balance the eco system so the tuna and other fishes population were not reduced.
Well a few companies have claimed their fins come from farmed sharks yet I know of no such farm where it starts from egg to adult. Some claim to be farms but are merely just sharks caught and penned.
Indeed, removing competitors for food is what many fishermen do. Monk Seals were killed off in the Adriatic for that reason. The point is if at what level is sustainable and what level is the gene pool going to be healthy?
We absolutely have everything we need on land but somehow people still starve and even staples like rice suffer from price spikes due to human greed. There've been stories of farmers allowing their crops to die to maintain rice prices. Can humans learn to manage their resources well to balance their need for food with conservation? I've started to believe it's not possible anymore.
Adu Mr!
Made doesn't look like George!
Not Made, the George impersonator that Bevens finds so funny. Minni knows about it too.
