Commercial whaling – know the facts.

Thank you very much for visiting my blog and I hope you find it very interesting.

Whales in general are in decline and this is mostly due to commercial whaling. This blog has been made to raise awareness. You may have heard about the campaign to reduce commercial whaling in Japan, but Japan is not the only country involved in the devastation of the whale population. Other countries that have their hand in it include: USA (united states of America), Canada , Russia, Iceland, Norway, Greenland, Indonesia, And many more...

In 2006/07 Iceland took 60 Minke whales under a permit for "scientific whaling", up from 39 in the last season. However Iceland announced in October 2006 that in addition to the whales caught for scientific research, they would resume commercial whaling and issued quotas for 30 Minke whales and 9 fin whales.

Norway resumed whaling in 1993 and since then has claimed over 6,879 Minke whales under objection.


Japan took a total of 866 whales in 2006/07 season:

• 3 Southern Hemisphere fin whales,
• 508 Southern Hemisphere minke whales,
• 197 North Pacific minke whales,
• 51 North Pacific Brydes whales,
• 101 North Pacific sei whales,
• 6 North Pacific sperm whales.

Method of killing: Whalers use heavy wood / metal harpoons fired from large guns to kill a whale. This is considered a very inhumane why to kill the whale because it leads to a very slow painful death. The average death time for a harpooned whale is 2-3 minutes, but some have been known to take up to an hour and a half. The death is so slow because unless the harpoon hits a vital organ the whale has to practically bleed to death.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/whaling/

Affect; beside the expansion taking a near deathly blow to whale populations all over the world – reducing pacific grey whales to only about a hundred- there is the possibility that it could have a lasting effect on the ocean food chains . this could result in the breakdown of the ocean eco system.

Some quick questions: Thank you for reading my blog, now could you please answer some quick questions to help me find out how effective I have been in raising awareness of this issue.

• do you feel more informed after reading this blog?
• Would you be prepared to sign a petition to ban commercial whaling all together?
• Do you feel that all the important points are covered in this blog?
• Please feel free to leave any other comments you may have about this issue.
• Could you please tell me your home town and what country live in (if not the uk) from when you leave a comment.

I really Hope you found my blog informative and eye opening . thank you for your time.

Emma.