International Whaling Commission

“For hundreds of years, local fishermen have hunted whales, and the food source was considered part of their tradition and culture.” Despite, a ban and moratorium imposed by the International Whaling Commission. Norwegians, have continued to hunted whales as they have for centuries. The meat that is harvested from the whales is used for food and to sustain the livelihood of families residing on the coastal regions of the country. Like Norway, Japan has a long standing history of whale fishing…

Candace Roberts F. Weeks English 101 12 October 2015 Should Whaling be Better Regulated than it is Now? In my personal belief whaling should be better regulated than what it is today and that even though yes they have international laws put into place it isn't what would be considered a final point in this fight against those that wish to do whales harm. The process of whaling has been around since about 800 A.D. whales were hunted for their meat, oils and bones. They were also turned into…

century, people took up whaling for the energy sources, and the meat and fat of whales can be used in different ways. Since the price of whale meat is really high, many people regard the profit as the chief motivation, caring less about the ecological system. There were about 66000 whales being killed during a hunting season in 1961 and till the International Whaling Commission (IWC) banned whaling, the number of whales has decreased 99% of it’s total population. The whaling ban was changed in…

Jerry Li Mrs. Kimpton English IV, Period 5/6 27 October 2015 Drop the Harpoon and Save the World When talking about whaling in the ocean, people generally attribute it to adventurous, or even heroic, images of brave sailors chasing those gigantic marine creatures in the stormy seas with harpoons in their hands. Whaling plays an important role in the long history of human beings. It persists until today in many cultures as a tradition. However, years of hunting have pushed the whales on the…

Whaling has been a Native American tradition for over 2,000 years, incidentally the International Whaling Commission and many other nongovernmental organizations are trying to change that tradition. These types of organizations such as Greenpeace, IWC, and NAMMCO, entail transnationalist views. Whereas on the other hand, states like Japan, Norway, and Iceland, have nationalist perceptions. The transnationalist argument against whaling mainly deals with animal rights and also the impact on the…

An Exemption for Whaling Do you agree with the Norwegian and Japanese position on permitting the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption? In 1986, The International Whaling Commission banned commercial whale hunting. Only two countries challenged this ruling - Norway and Iceland. They are the only two countries today that still practice whale hunting commercially. Japan practices whale hunting for “scientific” purposes. At this rate, there’s nothing cultural…

the practice. In the 1960 's the International Whaling Committee (IWC) tried to manage the commercial hunting of whales but realized that they needed a complete ban to prevent extinction. Whales are very slow to produce which makes them vulnerable to extremely quick population collapses. The IWC enacted a law prohibiting commercial hunting in 1986, but because they have no law enforcement or marine defense, over 300,000 whales have been killed since then. Whaling is an extremely cruel and slow…

president Paul Watson, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society does whatever it takes to stop crews on Japanese whaling vessels from slaughtering whales. Watson was also cofounder and board member of Sea Shepherd’s sister organization, Greenpeace. But, supposedly, he broke away from Greenpeace, because that organization’s mission is solely to record and expose the Japanese whaling fleet’s illegal whaling, not to interfere with it. Contrarily, Sea Shepherd tries to interfere as much as possible.…

The power of emotion: compassion In Marina Keegan’s essay, Why We Care About Whales, Marina claims on how humans value the life of humans and the life of non-human animals. The essay starts with a social occurrence of emerging beached whales. A natural force that is created by the movement of both the moon and the Earth push whales to the beach. While giving a detailed, vivid explanation of how beached whales die, Marina maximizes the sadness and lamentation of whales’ deaths. Furthermore, she…

Construction workers were just digging on a mountain in Santa Cruz County, California. They were surprised when they came across fossils during their dig, but it's not unusual to find fossils in a mountainous area. what was extremely odd about this fossil is that it was an almost completely intact fossil of a whale. Whales in the mountains How did the whale get there? It's not like it decided it would one day swim to the mountains, and it definitely didn't fly there. Luckily, a…