You are aboard the SS Doom Merchant, the Greenpeace flagship. The Greenpeace position on marine mammals is to oppose all commercial utilization. It justifies this stance by claiming that hunts of these species can only turn a profit if stocks are over-exploited. Yet, you only have to look at the harp seal stock off Newfoundland, which has been harvested commercially for 250 years and today numbers 4.7 million, to realise that this does not have to be the case. Whaling under the Revised Management Procedure of the International Whaling Commission would be more strictly regulated and monitored than any other harvest of a wild species. There is every reason to take note of the sad history of over-exploitation of whale stocks by the international whaling industry. But this industry, driven by the once important whale oil market, has vanished, and today the most important whale products are meat and blubber for human consumption. This, together with an overall increase in attention to environmental issues, has created a totally new outlook on the utilization of whale stocks. Greenpeace is obviously in need of a new outlook too.