Europe and North america (Usa and Canada)have sucessfully decimated their fish stocks by basically raping the sea, Australia and Newzealand have had to cut the qoutas by more than 50% because of this behaviour . Trawl fishing is the most destrutive form of fishing there is we kill these fish in there hundreds of millions every year. Fishing vessels dump thousands of tonnes of dead fish every day because they are not the target species.

People get caught up in the emotional BS that surounds whaling what we the so called “Civilised West” do is a hundred times worse than the japanese whaling.

Remove the plank from your own eye befor you attempt to remove the splinter from anothers eye.

Personally, the only shame I find in all of this is that the governments and navies of the world can’t deal with the whalers. It’s not the job of civilians to do a military job. What a pity that the ‘pirates’ have more guts than politicians and the armed forces. What the Japanese are doing is illegal. To call their activities ‘research’ is simply ridiculous. The only reason they are allowed to get away with their crimes is because the world is frightened of the economic consequences of opposing them.

To call the whalers ‘fishermen’ is also ridiculous. Whales are mammals, not fish, and I’ve never seen anyone fish with an explosive harpoon. It’s more usual to use either a net or a line and hook.