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What are your thoughts guys?
i am against it unless its scientific research however i do not know enough about the benefits of it, i want to do my oral issue presentation on it at school
so what are your viewpoints on it?

Fishing is a legitimate industry, and it always amazes me what Westerners are (for the most part) against it. I'm one of them, hate it. But what evokes that about whales and not tuna I can't place my finger one.

'Scientific research' seems to be just a term used by the Japanese for supplying their food market with whale meat. And it's dirty of them to do so. It shows a lack of respect for their friends and allies.

Are any of the whales targeted endangered?

Yes, I think, they're dying out fairly quickly aren't they? They're amazing creatures - it's sad to see them dying.

I am all for sustainable fishing. However I find fishing in Australian waters for protected species, like the whales being hunted, to be pretty abhorent. They are protected for a reason, and their numbers are frighteningly low. And I do have a problem with 'scientific research' seemingly just being an excuse to hunt whale meat. That's just wrong!
However on the other side of the coin, apparently the Japanese really don't like Westerners, who have a history of doing some pretty horrific things themselves, telling them what they should be doing, particularly in relation to something they see as culturally significant. Which I guess I can understand. Younger Japanese, apparently even more so for the younger women, aren't into whale meat at all.
I personally find it a sad and awful thing to hunt such enormous (and harmless) creatures.
I'd prefer farmed fish, rather than fish which are not harvested in a sustainable & responsible way (ie salmon & trout are both farmed, so I feel pretty safe with eating those two). David Attenborough told me there are no cod left in the northern ocean (cod & chips was a popular dinner in England in the 'old days' - twenty years ago!) because of unsustainable fishing practices.

I am totally in agreement, I say no to whaling and also no to the killing of dolphins in Japan as well as sharks, did you know that in Japan they use sonar sounds to attract the dolphins in to a little bay, push them all in to a tiny net and just start harpooning them. Also in Japan- they love shark fin soup- the catch the live sharks hack off the fin then throw the (still live and in alot of pain) shark back in to the water. Its the most upsetting thing i have ever seen.