What is wrong with whaling

Publication date: Dec 2001

Summary
Commercial whaling is one of the most environmentally destructive practices of all time and was responsible in the last century for taking many populations to the brink of extinction Yet the Fisheries Agency of Japan is determined to secure a return to large-scale commercial whaling and a hunt taking thousands of whales every year.

Japan claims that things are different now and that somehow whaling will not lead to the depletion of whale populations and can be controlled. This is not the case. There is overwhelming evidence that demonstrates that commercial whaling inevitably leads to the depletion of whale populations and that only a permanent ban on whaling can ensure the survival of the world's remaining whales.