Japanese Whaling: Legitimate Research or Inhumane Brutality? Thesis Statement: In order to prevent the permanent extinction of all whales in our future‚ we need to increase our knowledge about current whaling practices‚ and continue to vigorously fight against it until whaling has diminished. I. INTRODUCTION: We must put an end to whaling now II. Background information A. In 1986‚ the International Whaling Commission (WIC) enacted a moratorium on all commercial whaling. B. Since
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the 12th Century though to the 20th century‚ Japan has been involved in the hunting and slaughtering of whales for food and other produce. Japan can trace their whaling history back hundreds of years‚ to when whales were driven into nets‚ harpooned repeatedly and then dispatched with either a long sword or a wooden plug driven into the blowhole. Dating as far back as 10‚000 B.C. indicate that even hand held harpoons were used for whaling in Japan. Japans Methods were not as humane as they are today
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International Whaling Commission (IWC) is a worldwide organisation accountable for regulations on whaling. Under the guidance of this organisation‚ its member countries meet annually on a regular basis and discuss issues regarding whaling (IWC 2011). After long-term discussions‚ Japan’s whaling practices have been restricted‚ and Japan is currently only allowed to perform whaling in the name of research in the northwestern Pacific and the Antarctic. (Morikawa 2009:5). Since this commercial whaling moratorium
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Commercial whaling is not a very common controversy every one knows about but it really should be. There are a few main reasons whaling needs to be enforced more and those are Most whale species have a very few amount of them left in the wild‚ the way the hunters kill the whales is cruel‚ and it is already illegal but people choose to break the law. The first reason whaling needs to be stopped permanently is that most whales have a very low number of them. Minke whales are the most hunted whale
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Takatsuna Mukaiyachi Whaling should not be banned Recently‚ whaling is criticized and some organizations disagree with whaling‚ especially‚ Sea Shepherd strongly opposes whaling. Sea Shepherd website says‚ “ Sea Shepherd is an international not – for – profit organization‚ based in the United States with support from all over the world.” They say that their clients are the whales‚ sharks‚ dolphins‚ seals‚ turtles‚ sea bards‚ and fish‚ and in order to protect them‚ Sea
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to make any sound to notify that you are still alive. This is what happens to hundreds of whales every year (IFAW‚ 2011). Therefore whale hunting is completely senseless‚ immoral and inhumane and it has to stop. Bones and baleens Pro-whaling countries‚ like Japan‚ Iceland and Norway claim there is a need of whale products (Joanne‚ 2006). Historically this need can be explained. For centuries whales were hunted because of the oil of their blubber‚ which can be used for lightning like oil lamps and
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developed a mischievous reputation with the rest of the world over the past 100 years. They are notorious for going against the grain of modern society and tend to be rather impulsive during international disputes. There are many neighboring countries of Japan that oppose the actions of these “whalers”. The tension that the Japanese have created within the fishing trade by slaughtering dolphins is leading them into a downward spiral. This seems to be the current path that the United States are headed down
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describes the annual killing of dolphins in a Quasi-National Park at Taiji‚ Wakayama‚ in Japan from an ocean conservationist’s point of view.[2][3] The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin hunting drive is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic‚ and claims that 23‚000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year in the country’s whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a hidden cove where they are netted
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animals range from the wasting of meat simply because there is not a market for it in the whaling countries (Japan‚ Norway‚ and Iceland)‚ to the fact that it is causing many species of whales to the verge of extinction. There is an organization called the Sea Shepherd that hunts down the Japanese whale hunting fleet. The Sea Shepherd’s crew has developed tactics and uses sheer force to stop the Japanese from whaling over their quota of whales. The paper discusses how companies go about capturing marine
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Wars Every December‚ a fleet of hungry‚ evil whaling vessels set sail from Japan to commence their annual hunt on the minke and humpback whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary in the Southern Ocean. At the same time there is a crew of passionate volunteers making ready their vessels to make the same journey to the Southern Ocean‚ but they are not going there to whale. They are going there to do whatever is necessary to make sure Japan does not kill any whales as it is illegal to kill whales
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