BS: Iceland and whale hunting

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: Keef
Date: 30 Oct 06 - 02:33 AM

Save The Whale



Collect the whole set



I got the blue one but now my freezer is full up.

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: Wolfgang
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 12:28 PM

The Faroese kill the pilot whales in the traditional way with traditional weapons (roughly, hook and knife) but their small boats chasing the whales into a bay today have motors. Protect-the-whales-groups BTW have harshly criticised the Faroese for using the traditional method of killing and have called it "medieval".

For each group of pilot whales nearing the Faroes it is decided anew whether the chase will be allowed or not. The number of killed whales is stable since centuries (the data go some centuries back). None of these whales is processed industrially, all meat and what else can be used is distributed and used locally.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: Peace
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 12:33 PM

In Canada, those of us of traditional bent hunt the haggis. We ARE attempting to hunt it to extinction, but to date we have had little success. It is generally accompanied by copious draughts of Scotch, a liquid of wonderful medicinal properties but one also that causes the hunter to lose his or her balance.

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: Leadfingers
Date: 31 Oct 06 - 06:51 PM

Peace - Bear in mind that the Native Scottish Haggis , which I assume is the source of your Canadian variety , is a Clockwise creature , with the LEFT legs longer than the right legs , so they can only go clockwise round the mountains ! The SPOTING way to hunt is to only go clockwise yourself . The UN sporting way is for a few people to drive the poor unsuspecting haggis round the mountain to the waiting guns .

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Apr 07 - 03:12 PM

Save the whales!

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 03:53 AM

Along with several others, I can't see much wrong with using whales as food. That's my philosophical position, and I am setting myself up for a heap of shit.
I do, however, have a problem with catching them right NOW, because they have been commercially 'fished' almost to extinction, and if they are not left strictly alone to recover, they may never do so. Who can tell if the whale that's harpooned tomorrow might be the most genetically important one left? Arbitrarily reducing the size of a already reduced gene pool is bloody stupid. They only procreate like other big mammals, not spawn like fish.
Just because you can see 'plenty' of them, it doesn't mean there are lots of them. It is possible that you see the same ones over and over, as is the case with territorial whales.

Non-whaling (ex-whaling) countries do tend to be a bit unbalanced about whaling, though. AFTER it became uneconomic, they swung the other way as conscience prodded them to to try to 'Save the Whale.' Now they try to lean on subsistance whalers to comply with their position.

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 04:08 AM

I meant to point out that commercial whalers have catcher boats and factory ships which are no use for anything else. Subsistance whalers drag the thing up the beach and deal to it there, distributing the spoils to friends and family. I see a difference there.

I live in a country that was founded, in its present situation, largely on whaling and sealing, and exploitation of other natural resources. The original inhabitants were subsistance whalers, and then along came the Pakehas, the European settlers.

My name is Davy Lowstan, I did Seal, I did Seal.
My name is Davy Lowstan, I did Seal.
Though my men and I were lost,
though our very lives it cost,
we did Seal, we did Seal, we did Seal.

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: skarpi
Date: 10 Apr 07 - 07:51 AM

Guest you said --Save the whales! Us is one of larges whales fishing
nation in the world ? so are you gonna stop too ?

you have to stop your coverment in saying - I can -you cant .

I think the whaling in Iceland is going to be stopped, we have
elections here in the middle of may , I hope a new group of people
will take over , and they are against whale fishing.


All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Iceland and whale hunting
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Apr 14 - 11:22 AM

I put this link here, as it deals with whaling and Japan is mentioned in some of the posts.

A Japanese parliamentary committee has unanimously passed a resolution urging the government to investigate all options to continue whaling, including "walking out of the (international whaling) convention"




Japan politicians defiant despite whaling ban