Whales should be treated just like all the other sentient animals which humans kill and eat. For some cultures, whale-hunting is an integral part of their history and identity. Stopping these hunts can damage vulnerable communities.
Allowing whale hunting will save the broken International Whaling Commission, which has become dysfunctional through internal disagreement, because it allows members that previously withdrew to return.
Whales do collide with ships causing human injury and damage to property. Hunting them to lower but sustainable numbers will reduce these collisions. Hideki Moronuki, Japan's senior fisheries negotiator and commissioner for the IWC, told the BBC that Japan wants the IWC to get back to its original purpose - both conserving whales but also "the sustainable use of whales".
Whaling in the 19th and early 20th Century brought the giant mammals to the brink of extinction. By the s improved catch methods and giant factory ships made it obvious that whale hunting could not go unchecked. Hence the moratorium. Today, whale stocks are carefully monitored, and while most species are still endangered, others - like the minke whale which Japan primarily hunts - are not.
As an incentive to anti-whaling nations, the proposals would also make it easier to establish new whale sanctuaries. Anti whaling activists are of course up in arms about the proposal. There's also the argument that whales are very intelligent animals with highly developed social structures. Killing them causes them fear, panic and pain. The old way of whaling with a plain harpoon meant a slow and agonising death.
Modern hunters though aim to kill the animal instantly, usually with an exploding harpoon, but conservations argue it can still take very long for a whale to die. Two years ago the Australian government released graphic footage from showing a Japanese research ship harpooning a whale which activist group Sea Shepherd said took more than 20 minutes to die.
Those in favour of whaling say such cases are exceptions - accidents that also happen in any abattoir. Yet their main point is that they argue that opposition to sustainable whaling of non-endangered stocks is deeply hypocritical. Industrial meat production keeps pigs, cows and chicken in grim captivity from birth to slaughterhouse, but this seldom stops shoppers from reaching for a nice cut of pork or beef.
There is also the hunter's defence that killing a wild animal is more ethical than raising an animal in captivity with the sole purpose of eating it. Lars Walloe, former head of Norway's delegation to the IWC, told the BBC whaling is the same as killing "other large mammals in the forest, like deer, elk, moose". Leading anti-whaling nations like Australia have already said they would band together to reject any attempts to undermine the current ban.
Should whaling be banned? As I mentioned earlier shark fishing is a cruel and inhumane practice by humans of cutting the fins off of live sharks. This wasteful technique uses about 1 percent of the sharks total body weight. Shark finning has been going on for thousands of years, but with the demand growing and the black market prices rising we are finding ourselves scrambling to try to help conserve our sharks. Odds are that as you are reading this, a shark was killed. While sharks may not be the most adorable animals on the planet, they certainly are living creatures, and they feel pain just like us.
Shark slaughter has led to shark populations being rapidly decimated all around the globe. Fishermen report that sharks are also getting smaller because they are not being given enough time to fully mature. Although there are other fish that are targeted more than sharks, they are not exactly affected by the kind of endangerment that sharks are currently experiencin What is ocean pollution? Most modern societies no longer depend on whaling for resources, but it still remains deeply embedded into some cultures.
The extinction of whales could prove to have major repercussions on an ecosystem or the aquatic environment. Commercial hunting of whales by several countries has greatly reduced whale populations and is threatening their existence. Conservationists also argue that whales show signs of high intelligence and exposing them to the inhumane methods of whaling and pain is cruel.
These reasons are why whaling is a controversial environmental topic and is creating tensions between countries. A whaling ban has been put in place to limit whaling and protect whales, there are some problematic issues to do with this ban. Whaling is a very controversial topic throughout the world.
The issues I will be discussing today include; how many types of whales are endangered due to whaling, that there is no humane way to kill the whales and the fact that it is easy to get around the whaling ban due to a large loophole in the clause — and furthermore that there are countries that use this loophole to their advantage.
Many species of whale have been hunted to near extinction. While this is popular world opinion does not always mean it is correct, or in some cases wrong. To balance the claims extremes should not be taken. As with allowing whaling, moderations could be put into place. It could be allowed with only a certain number of whales per year or in keeping with a nation's sovereignty leaving the decisions about whether or not to allow whaling to the nations in which whaling exists or is part of the culture.
I am still strongly for allowing or denying certain things only if they are for everyone or no one. While a few people exploit these whales to gather their meat and organs, the majority of local people of Whangara endeavor to sort out a salvage endeavor and convey the whales back to ocean. At the point when Koro comes back from an excursion he had been on amid the trial, he comments with extraordinary anguish that this is an indication for them.
The following night a much greater occasion happens, this time saw not by everybody but rather just by the little Maori group inside of the town. Amid the night, Rawiri, Koro, Kahu and Nanny hear a blasting sound originating from the ocean, as though an incredible entryway has recently opened, and after that they witness an expansive gathering of enormous whales rise up out of the base of the ocean. These animals are sacred and precious.
The more we. If this activity continues to be uncontrolled, whales will extinct in one day. Although whale hunting is known to be profitable to the hunters, whaling is still unacceptable because they are the beautiful creation of mother nature that we have to protect, it is considered as animal cruelty or abusion and it will cause pollution to the sea, thus becoming danger to human beings.
First and foremost, whaling should be completely banned to. The Norwegian and Japanese positions and arguments to be permitted with the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption should not be considered. Given this statement, I would support the ban of whaling worldwide. In addition, it would be difficult and costly to monitor the whaling activity that is taking place in waters where whales frequent.
Do you agree with the Norwegian and Japanese position on permitting the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption? Answer: I think to certain extend I agree to maintain some level of whaling, I guess that it should only be allowed in the villages that depend of this meat as a main source of food, and it should be banned in places where is only done to seek monetary gain.
Do you think the whaling ban constitutes a violation of these nations' sovereignty? Answer: I don't believe that sovereignty should be taken that seriously as it is only an idea and it does not affects peoples life in any way and it is not vital for human kind survival, I do think like I mention on the question below, that if it is an imperative.
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