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Originally Posted by MTUpower
The numbers of slaughter dolphins is how many?
I think the reason people are disgusted is the simple fact that dolphins appear to be intelligent mammals and they are cute. Sharks fins being sliced off a live shark and the shark left to die did not gather attention nearly as quickly nor did it have the disgusting factor as sharks are not mammals nor are they cute. As a marine professional I don't like this dolphin kill, nor to I like the whale kills. Sea Shepard is universally disliked in the NGO world and is frequently a thorn in the side of all NGO's who are trying to improve bad practices of all humans which degrade our planet. SS torpedo'd a major environmental shark bill in Polynesia which took many years of work and planning because they wanted the lime light. They didn't get it and the bill went down in flames.
If you like the Federal govt coming into your community and telling you what to do, when to do it and how to do it then you can complain about the dolphin harvest. If you are in favor of smaller govt and local control then you have little grounds to stand on.
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Approximately 22000 just in Taiji alone.
Being in favor of small government has no relation to being opposed to systematic and inhumane slaughter of intelligent animals, no matter how hard you want to spin it that way.
We will never return to the days of isolation, it is a global community now, and one should not sit by and idly watch one's neighbor commit such acts.
What bill did SS screw the pooch on? Got a link?
Looks like French Polynesia and the Cook Islands both passed shark protection laws one year ago.
French Polynesia — a group of five major archipelagoes with more than 100 islands, including Tahiti — created the world’s largest shark sanctuary of 1.5 million square miles of sea on Dec. 6. The Cook Islands designated its own, which is equal to the size of Mexico at 756,000 square miles, on Dec. 19.
French Polynesia had established a moratorium on shark fishing and finning in 2006, but it exempted mako sharks to win over local fishing interests. More than 20 shark species, including hammerhead and thresher sharks, swim off its shores, according to the Pew Environment Group’s global shark conservation program director, Jill Hepp.
Tekau Frere, a technical adviser to French Polynesia’s environment minister, wrote in an e-mail that a permanent ban, which will now include makos, reflects sharks’ ecological, economic and cultural significance. Sharks, she wrote, “have a high value in Pacific Island cultures. . . . They are both respected and feared.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/french-polynesia-and-cook-islands-create-sanctuaries-to-protect-sharks/2012/12/14/1685d324-4318-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html