Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl Safina

By Dr. M, on March 17th, 2011 One comment   Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government   Japan, whaling  

But I wonder: If Westerners had ignored Japan’s whaling, would its whaling have died sooner, of its own internal economic problems?

via Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl Safina.

1 comment to Did Outsider Pressure Speed The End Of Japan’s Antarctic Whaling—Or Prolong It? | Carl Safina

• NickD

  March 18, 2011 at 06:33 · Reply

  I agree with posts on that site. It seems to have brought the issue to the Japanese populace – what effect did that have? Hmmmm

  Only tenuously related, but good to see the Navy funding research into its effects on deep-sea cetaceans:
  http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017009