Humpback hunting

[Tassie Devil]

Apparently dog is tasty too, but i'm not queing up for that steak sandwich. I was snorkeling with 2 humpies 4 weeks ago. Breaks my bloody heart!

[gobfish1]

Humpback hunting

when i first spotted your post, i said to my self, a up must be one of Buoyant Babe,s
North East Xmass gig's , As there used to be alot of hump backs in and around the night clubs of South Shields,,,,

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by chrisch

Perhaps the Australians should declare war on Japan if it does hunt in Ozzie waters...

Don't you start, it's bad enough that the people who will be in power here as of Saturday are talking about sending the Navy down, to do what (?) exactly. Especially if the Japs throw them the brown eye....what then? Open fire? Naval boarding party?

Anyway, it's the Antarctic, not Aus waters, so I don't think we'd have any right to do so anyway and legally, there is nothing to stop them.

That said, I watched a pair of humpbacks down here off Munro Bight last month, (possibly the same pair that Tassie Devil saw as it's only a short distance down the coast) and I find it incredible that they could do such a thing.

It's almost as if it's being done by accountants - the ones who know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

However, if you want someone to start a war over whales, with what is now, after the USA, the major maritime power in the Indo-Pacific, look for someone else.

[tonhil]

As an aussie I would be thrilled if "Super Kev" seized the ships and sunk them.

If the French can do it in NZ then the Japanese can have it done to them in Antarctica!

[Steve Jones]

Originally Posted by rustferret

Lets face it if you could get crude oil or wales meant you owned the artic we would be told the japs had WMD's and we would be dragged into another war to bomb the shit out of Japan!

That's right us Welsh are a minority too, leave us out of it, we don't want to be hunted.

Steve

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by chrisch

My own (and only) solution is to buy a Russian navy surplus submarine and sink the whaling fleet. This would involve finding about 25 million pounds and being prepared to murder a large number of human beings. Sadly, I do not have the money. I fear that no other solution would be effective.

For far less than 25mil you could buy the Nisshin Maru and sink it as a diving attraction.

Since there is virtually no money in whale meat these days, I think the last lot went for pet food, no bottom line concious Japanese businessman is going to build another factory ship so when it's gone it's gone.

[resting rifleman]

Originally Posted by principia

when I saw the title I thought this was another thread on euphemisms..

J.

Yep, threw me too, I thought Quasimodo was bell ringing again
Krill have as much reason to survive as whales! they have families and needs too.
save the krill-eat the whales.
mike.

cap on, coat on, marches swiftly into the distance!

[hilrosepaul]

Saw this this morning:

Japan gives in to pressure over whale hunt - Telegraph

[StephM]

Great news, well done Oz/Greenpeace. Shame they still plan to kill 1000 minke and fin whales though.