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23-Dec-98
Captain Paul Watson, Conservationist, Canadian
Paulwatson@earthlink.net
As we promised, the Makah did not kill a whale this year. We patrolled the Washington coast for 58 days in a row to prevent any whaling activity. We left when we felt confident that the winter storms would prevent any further attempts. Sea Shepherd will be back in the spring. The other bit of great news is that the Japanese will not be killing any whales in Antarctica this year. The Nisshin Maru burned for six days and the cost of repairing her should consume a few years of illegal whaling profits.
21-Dec-98
Marisa, Student, White
www.me.com
Who cares?
19-Dec-98
hansi, uummat, kalaaleq
xmann54@hot,mail.com
myhearths is heated by the coldness of our seas from my site she´s becoming warmess to our brain people do your stomach warmer arfermiit kissartiuk atatiuk
19-Dec-98
Iceman, sealman, Greenland
tungutaq@knr.gl
The Makahs have their first nation rigths to hunt whales! The brave Makahs! Get your harpoons ready!
02-Dec-98
Danielle Hattrick, Patient Care Coordinator, American
hattrick@ohsu.edu
I think it is very informative. I took the test before reading everything and did very poorly so now know I have to study up. Don't know as much about marine life as I suspected. I would love it if you could send me further information about your program. Thank you.
01-Dec-98
André Malouf, Wildlife Rehabilitator, Canadian
andre.malouf@sympatico.ca
Excellent site. Keep up your good work, it is very encouraging to see quality information on the protection of marine mammals on the internet. The organisation I work with, Urban Animal Advocates, has been operating a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation in Quebec for the last 10 years. In a matter of a few weeks, we will be opening a new wildlife center in Montreal and if we are successful with our fundraising this winter, we hope to set up a marine mammal unit for injured and lost seals that have strayed from their herds. Marine mammal supporters interested in receiving more information on our work or wishing to help support the establishment of a permanent full time wildlife rescue and seal rescue programme in Quebec, can contact Urban Animal Advocates at the address below.
A. Malouf Dir. Research and Operations Urban Animal Advocates Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre P.O. Box 664, Snowdon Station Montreal, Quebec Canada H3X 3X8
andre.malouf@sympatico.ca
will be opening a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre in Montreal in a few weeks. As soon as
22-Nov-98
mel harvey, business partner,mother and wife, australian
gharvey@tpg.com.au
every day i sit and watch the news with my three young children.we sit together and cry at the state the world is in.after all i have read and seen i am starting to think that time is running out , not just for the animals but for the entire human race. some may think that i am a little extreme,but please open your eyes and take a good look at your world,your childrens world.lets all get together and make a stand. show these people that what they are doing is no longer acceptable ,that we reclaim the earth in our childrens name.
11-Nov-98
msspiffy, retired, american
msspiffy@webtv.net
I looked at everything and read everything on this site. I found offensive some of the letters - also I did not appreciate the Harpoon Cartoons nor think them amusing. I am against whaling - and, as a matter of fact, any killing of animals. Nor do I eat flesh of any animal- use products that contain animals or byproducts of animals. This is really quite simple to do if one puts forth just a small amount of effort. Realizing that this is just a very personal lifestyle and a philosophical choice and I accept that not all people necessarily HAVE this choice, I still feel that my opinions should be expressed and perhaps it will lead another to at least think of the ramifications of the slaughter of animals. Whether animals have "self-consciousness - or developed emotional lives" is debatable. I don't think that we know. And unless and until we can get in their heads then I am willing to assume that they might. Therefore, I do not choose to be a party to their suffering in any capacity.
11-Nov-98
Taira Sandefer, Student, White
Blaundey
I really love Whales!! I think there are very spcial animals. And I don't think anyone should kill them. I would like to be a Marine Biologist and save the whales. Thanks for reading this!
04-Nov-98
joan harstri, secretary, american
jharstri
Screw the Makah. Let them go to school and get a trade or even better draw straws and select 10 of the tribal members to hunt down and skin.
28-Oct-98
Cetacean, web surfer, Canadian
CU
If you would like to view a site with some integrity then check out anti-whaling.com !
28-Oct-98
Rossco, Web developer and professional whale watcher, Canadian
rosco@coastnet.com
From what I have seen of this site I am not impressed. To even consider killing a whale in these times is a true testimate to the pathetic state of humanity. I realize I am re-stating what many have said... but it obviously hasn't sunk in.
26-Oct-98
STEVE PARMLEY, MARINE TRANSPORTATION, NORWEGIAN
steve.parmley@mci2000.com
I THOUGHT THE MAKAHS WERE GOING TO USE HARPOONS JUST LIKE THEIR ANCESTERS DID, - SHOULD HAVE BEEN A FAIR HUNT, PADDLING A CANOE AND THROWING A HARPOON IN MODERATE SWELLS, BUT NOT TRUE, NOW WE SEE THEM PRACTICING WITH 50 CALIBER RIFLES TO SEE WHICH TYPE OF GUN AND SHELL WILL KILL THE WHALES EASIER. WHAT A BUNCH OF CRAP!! THEY SHOULD BE MADE TO USE HARPOONS ONLY AS IN PAST GENERATIONS.
24-Oct-98
Kerry Popple, student, English
Kerry.Popple@jcu.edu.au
Greta site!!
20-Oct-98
elisabeth gjertsen, paper general, norwegian
pwsas@onlone.no
17-Oct-98
Bill, Computers, USA
pointsolutions@mediaone.net
A broad and rational presentation. Thanks. I have enjoyed my time here. I think there is a lot of debate that is unfortunately structured towards emotional issues. To be up front, I believe the animals do not have to be harvested to supply humans at this point. People are capable of moving beyond this activity and there are clear benefits associated with preserving the diversity and even beauty of the animals surrounding us. Over time the cultural activities (such as eating) based on dead animals will disappear due to either the victory of complete "dominion" or the result of some conservation effort. I prefer the latter because of the feelings these animals bring me.
17-Oct-98
Kathleen Andersen, Sales/Marketing, USA
Kander6444
I am trying to be understanding in the joy that some people on this board might have with hunting whales. However, I also think its time to get with the 90's and practice some re-education to those who are raping our oceans. The seas and waterways belong to me also as a God given right and I think the practice of whaling is barbaric. It used to be traditional for men to throw virgins off into a volcano but lets face it times change and so must our way of making a living. Nuclear waste was a way of life in the 50's but haven't we learned from our own mistakes yet? Thank you. Otherwise your site was nice.
13-Oct-98
Andi Gaugusch, sporting agency, Austrian
taigatours@aon.at
teach a lot of "primates" that the more a diamond is glittering and sparkling, the more sharp edges and facettes it has. according to our hunting (meant is shooting) rights, we do know our nationwide bag on all animals of pray. still you are on an island! just as the Icelanders? where is your island, who is downing more geese? shouldnt you have a look on that gamefilled parts on the "continent", overpopulated,but still making bags, your keepering system might only dream of?
yours in shooting andi gaugusch
http://members.aon.at/taigatours
10-Oct-98
Anthony Martinis, Commercial Fisherman, USA
Rummy1973
I am curious to know if you support the effort to re-instate a non tribal whaling effort on the west coast of the U.S. and the Puget Sound.
09-Oct-98
einar hammer, student, norsk
eihammer
jeg har alltid trodd jeg hadde greie på hval, men når resultatet lå mellom 30-40% så er det ennu mer å lære. selv for oss som er for hvalfangst. stå på gutta. hils til gutta på havet. og en god klem til han bastesen.
28-Sep-98
Frida Nielsen, Student, Danish
r09fn@af-dk.dk
I think that the Faroese pilot whaling is ok. Its an old tradition and they know how to kill the whale, the quickest way. And they are only killing the whale because they eat the meat. There is a lot af sad propaganda that the Faroese only kill for fun. Thats a dreathful lie.
21-Sep-98
x, An educated idiot too, Norwegian
x
Dear Mr. Watson. Your definition of VIOLENCE is of course, technically, more correct than mine. I'm sure that people who get their properties sunk, burned or damaged in other ways by other people - in their harts feel that they have been a victim of violence. Anyhow Mr. Watson. Any nation in which you sink boats will consider you as criminals. Any such nation will also, on behalf of their national law make you a suable. Most inhabitants in such a nation will compare the sinking activities with snipers activities. The supporters of Sea Shepherd supports criminal activities.
16-Sep-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof.of Ecology, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
My Dear X, No Sea Shepherd action has ever caused an injury or a death. Yet you equate us with people who kill people. Dr. Martin Luther King once wrote that "it is not possible to commit violence against a non-sentient object". The Shepherd Conservation Society has never engaged in an act of violence. What we have done is enforce international conservation law against illegal whaling activities. We are allowed to do so by virtue of the Implementation Section (21) (21e) of the United Nations Charter for Nature. You can access this on our web site if you desire at www.Seashepherd.org By the way X I am both a Captain and a Prof.
16-Sep-98
x, An educated idiot too, Norwegian
x
Well, well professor captain Watson. Your organisation has shown to be as much violent (fazistic?) as many claim the Croatians to be. You sneak around in Norwegian harbours at night blowing up Norwegian fishermens boats. Why should any Norwegian give up their names to coward snipers?
14-Sep-98
Naomi, something - I forget, Australian
malt0005@flinders.edu.au
In Western Australia the whalers had similar attitudes to yours and were very anti-environment, but now they realise that tourism and whale watching brings in more money than killing the whales. Many ex-whalers are now tour guides and can now see the folly of whaling.
12-Sep-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology, Canadian
PaulWatson@earthlink.com
Dear Jesper,
Yes and Yes.
12-Sep-98
Jesper Heldbo, Senior adviser for fisheries, Ph.D., M.Sc., Danish
heldbo@post5.tele.dk
Dear Poul (Watson), Now the whole world is waiting to know the truth - did your wife appear in Playboy as playmate & are you really a professor of ecology ??
10-Sep-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology, Canadian
paulwatson@earthlink.com
Well, well, x is an educated Norwegian, so much so that he signs his name as x. Norwegians are always great advocates of pointing their fingers elsewhere to distract criticism of themselves. Be critical of illegal Norwegian whaling and x immediately begins to talk about "hormone disturbed Serbs and Croations". What's your point x?
10-Sep-98
x, An educated idiot too, Norwegian
x
Yes, Harry. You're right. My suggestion is to use the ressourses to fetch weaponds to the muslims in Croatia, to the muslims in Mostar and so on. But the human suffer (caused of hormon disturbed Croatians and Serbians)in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo is just peanuts compared to the fact that Norwegians kill 200 whales a year for living. Is'nt it?
09-Sep-98
Harry Pitzski, Researcher, Croatian
hairpit@hotmail.com
Maybe if a whale was chasing your flabby white arses with a harpoon, you would not lampoon whaling and put down environmentalists (which is no longer a negative term). Why not redirect whaling resources toward a profession that actually has some benefit?
30-Aug-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology, Canadian
Paulwatson@earthlink.com
Makah Update: The Makah day Festival was well attended. 800 National Guardsman attended at a cost of $1 million by order of Governor Gary Locke. 50 FBI agents and another 150 Law enforcement agents for a total of 1200 government officials to protect the Makah whalers. The problem wasded that no protestors attended. Sea Shepherd never intended to attend. Instead we worked quietly on our ships in Seattle to prepare for the proposed whale hunt scheduled to begin on Ocotber 1st. This week-end was an embarrassment for the government and has exposed the amount of tax dollars going into subsidizing this "cultural" hunt. Makah attendance was down from previous years due to other Indian people being reluctant to attend a festival crawling with Federales. This week-end was an excellent example of Sun Tzu's art of fighting by not fighting. It was a victory for whale-savers and we did not even have to show up.
23-Aug-98
Stuart W Barkway, Retired, British
rossami@pipemedia.com.uk
15-Aug-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology, Canadian
PaulWatson@earthlink.com
Ho hum Mike, You're boring me! You're right, why am I wasting my time bantering with the likes of you.
14-Aug-98
Simon Ward, Journalist, UK
s.ward@pacific.net.ph
Dear Paul, I'm sorry you interpreted my last posting as meaning I want to masturbate over pictures of your wife. Nothing could be further from the truth. I simply wanted to add to my background information on your good self. You refer to Lisa in another posting here as a "Playboy Playmate". Now, a Playmate means a centrefold, and for sure your wife has never appeared as a centrefold in the American edition of Playboy, unless it was under another name. So I am wondering whether it was in a feature article (in which case she is not a Playmate), or whether it was in the German edition, Brazilian edition, or whatever. You see, the relevance of this has to do with your credibility. For example, you now refer to yourself as Prof. of Ecology UCLA, but I checked this out with UCLA, and they say you have no right to use this title in this way. So I started thinking to myself, maybe this whole Playboy Playmate thing was just part of the same image building. Of course, you could quickly lay this suspicion to rest by telling us all the edition in which your wife appeared. I promise I won't even look! I'll just take you at your word! P.S.: I have nothing against "wanking" (your word), but I do have a problem with people who use such words so gratuitously in a public forum. Call me a prude if you like, but many members of the whale rights community could do with a sharp lesson in good manners.
14-Aug-98
Mike, Journalist, British
mts_w@hotmail.com
Dear Admiral -
No wonder you don't need your wife's pictures, if you get your rocks off by visiting this site (ref: your last posting).
However, I'm still slightly bemused by your stated preference for whales and trees over females of your own species.
While whales and trees are there to be hugged (and I'm trying not to picture that in my mind, or suggest sexual connotations) women can be treated as sex objects for the gratification of the male.
I'm trying hard to understand your logic. Political correctness, for better or worse, usually incorporates respect for women as well as trees, doesn't it? Or do women in pornography empower themselves?
Do you visit strip clubs, lap dancing clubs, massage parlours or brothels?
How do your women members respond to all this?
I won't ask about your male members, for obvious reasons.
As I'm sure you appreciate, I'm trying to understand your motivations, and I'm sure you'll convince me that you're right about everything.
Fondest wishes - Mike
13-Aug-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology UCLA, Canadian
PaulWatson@earthlink.com
Simon, If you think I'm going to assist you in locating my wife's Playboy pictures so that you can wank off, forget it. Find it yourself. AS for the term whale-huggers. I have no problem with that. I like tree-huggers also. I'd rather be a whale hugger than a whale killer and a tree hugger than a tree killer. I do agree with you. This website does provide some amusing entertainment. It's the only place I know of where I can have fun chatting with paleolithic throw-backs and knuckle draggers.
11-Aug-98
Mike, Journalist, British
mts_w@hotmail.com
Thanks to X - I couldn't have put it better myself.
Private Partz - you take my breath away. So magnificent, you bestride the oceans like a collosus. How can I be surprised that you married a Playboy bunny - why only the one? Surely a god such as yourself (we've already established that you are invincible, always right and hung like a Minke whale) could service a fleet of women while saving whalekind, etc etc blah blah blah.
Save your idle fantasies for the fantasists who idolise you.
I'll just sit here wondering about your Freudian slip -- "the real thing beats the two-dimensional experiences" --- and wonder what it is about me and my private life that you think you understand.
Twat.
Kind regards - Mike
11-Aug-98
x, An educated idiot too, Norwegian
x
I hope people who supports Sea Shepherd Conservation Society from in this site imagine what their money runs into. Captain Cock uses his time as a leader in the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (and professor) to quarrel with a brittish jounalist about having "the biggest one". He surely has the biggest mouth. Large mouths is often full of dirt. Keep up your good work!
11-Aug-98
Simon Ward, Journalist, UK
s.ward@pacific.net.ph
Can I ask Paul Watson (a regular contributor to this page) to tell me which month and which issue of Playboy his wife appeared in? I have scanned the net for the words Lisa Distefano and Playbot, and keep coming up blank.
One comment: If I ever need to remind myself how out of touch whale-huggers are, and have a laugh/cry about the state of humanity at the same time, this is the guest book I head for.
Keep up the great work.
11-Aug-98
MIKEY'S ANUS, EATING TWAT, TWATMAN
FUCK YOU MIKEY
MIKE: GO CRAWL UP YOUR ASS. THANKS
11-Aug-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof of Ecology UCLA, Canadian
paulwatson@earthlink.com
Mike, I don't need copies of Playboy at sea. I married a Playboy Playmate and believe me the real thing beats the two dimensional experiences that you are forced to enjoy.
10-Aug-98
Mike, Journalist, British
mts_w@hotmail.com
No, Corporal Klutz, let *me* get this straight ---
You are prepared to risk human life because you think that you're right (correction: you *know* you're right) about whaling.
Can you tell the difference between "the display of human nudity" and pornography? Or do the mags help you through those long nights at sea, in which case I suppose that makes it all alright.
Finally, if I'm a "sick puppy" does that make me:- (a) worth more than a whaler, who's probably only Norwegian, anyway; (b) worth less than a whaler, a being at once more sentient and developed and able to feel and express pain; or (c) strangely attractive, but don't tell my nurse.
Fondest wishes - Mike
09-Aug-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology - UCLA, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
Message to the whalers. Ask yourself: Just how did the "Charley" catch fire this summer.The Seas Shepherd Conservation Society will continue to work for higher insurance premiums on Norwegian whaling vessels. You just never know who will be next.
09-Aug-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof.of Ecology UCLA, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
Let me get this stright Mike. You don't see anything wrong with cruelty and the illegal slaughter of defenseless whales but you have problems with the display of human nudity. You really are one sick puppy Mike.
06-Aug-98
Mike, Journalist, British
mts_w@hotmail.com
My oh my, how I laughed.
Let me get this straight: General Watson tells his chums to write in and say how terrible whaling is,and none of them can remember not to mention that they're already members of the Sea Shanty Hippy Alliance.
But even better, Colonel Blimp - who's happy to attack shipping in the name of Saving The Whale (very politically correct) is happy to give interviews to Playboy? (See his Guestbook entry at bottom of page).
So, Captain Haddock, tell me. If it's morally wrong to kill a whale, is it morally correct to condone and participate in pornography?
Regards - Mike
05-Aug-98
Trygve Midtgaard, Biologist, Norwegian
trygvemi@toyen.uio.no
Interesting site. Very informative. Many of the messages in the guest book are also interesting, but not because they are informative.
31-Jul-98
Kelsy and Alana, Student (K-12), Australian
smellyblob@yahoo.com
We think that whaling should be banned and anyone doing it killed
30-Jun-98
x, An educated idiot too, Norwegian
x
Its funny that Johanna from Sweden, calling her self a marine biologist uses sentences as "The whalers will not stop their mass slaughtering until every whale is dead, at which time they will look for another species to decimate-and all in the name of GREED". Is this declaration based on knowledge about her self as a human being ? Or is it based on good knowledge about her norwegian neighbours? It's funny that people think there was a balance between the origins "before man interfered nature". There has never been a solid balance in nature and in fact the man interfered nature from the first day by hunting and by agricultural activities. In good years (temperatures, salinity, climate, food conditions) a lot of whales where born. In bad years plenty whales died. If too many whales were born over a lot of years there could be a lack of food or the population got so stuck that there occured deseases - with mass death as a couse. In fact a registrated hunt based on quotas, in sustainable levels, will make less variations in the number of mink whales than if we let the nature "fix it self". We must have in mind that we regulate all other species in sea too. Free growth of one species will make changes in further chains. If the nature (and whale stock) should "fix itself" in the origin way, we had to quit all agricultural and sea explotation. We had to quit industrial activity and go back to the club, bow and arrow - even then we would interfere nature.. Which is both inhumane, animal suffer(?) and unbelevable - is'nt it?
29-Jun-98
Johanna, Marine biologist, Sweden
----------------
You should be ashamed of yourself for presenting such twisted "facts" as true! How can you even begin to pretend that whaling is a "sustainable industry"? The whalers have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and dishonest in regards to the number of whales they catch, history has shown us this. Whales are in danger of becoming extinct if we carry on with total lack of regard for the health of the oceans. Many other nations now want to resume commercial whaling since witnessing Norway's greed. The whalers will not stop their mass slaughtering until every whale is dead, at which time they will look for another species to decimate-and all in the name of GREED.
29-Jun-98
xxxx, xxxx, xxxx
xxx
LIES,LIES,LIES
23-Jun-98
xxxxxx, xxxxxx, xxxxxx
trauda@usa.net
does anyone here know paul watson ????
12-Jun-98
Kristinn Rafnsson, Engineer, ICELAND
kristr@rvk.is
12-Jun-98
EAT SHIT FUCK BOY, EVERYTHING, EVERYONE
YOU FUCKING CUNT FACES
I'm going to fucking skin you fucking whalers alive, roast your little cocks and feed them to the belugas.
EAT SHIT
10-Jun-98
John Kelly, Executive Officer, Kangaroo Industry Association A, Australian
kiaa@tassie.net.au
Great site, aother stepforward for sensible use views. You might like to visit our site www.kagaroo-industry.as.au
10-Jun-98
Krill, Just living, Arctic and Antarctic Ocean
Cold@Sea
DEATH TO ALL YOU FUCKING WHALES!!!!!
10-Jun-98
Jim Rhode, mariner, USA
jrhode@ptialaska.net
Interesting. What has happened to Sea Shepherd? I haven't seen anything since the Press Release of March 19, 98. I worked on their new boat for awhile but had to leave befoe they went north.
08-Jun-98
DOLPHIN, PLAYING, OCEANS
EVERYWHERE
DEATH TO ALL YOU FUCKING WHALERS!!!!!
08-Jun-98
the Goddess, creating, the world
whalelover@oshun.com
Do not think that you who kill my creatures will be forgiven easily. Your senseless,murdering actions will cause you much grief! WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
08-Jun-98
the Goddess, creating, the world
whalelover@oshun.com
Do not think that you who kill my creatures will be forgiven easily. Your senseless,murdering actions will cause you much grief! WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
08-Jun-98
Baby Beluga, trying to sink all the murdering whaling ships and, the world
Beluga@bluewaters.com
The whales will never give up easily!!!!!! You murderes will pay for all the senseless slaughter you commit.
08-Jun-98
i don't know, what ever, who cares
wherever
die all you mother fucking bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
07-Jun-98
whale, swimming, world wide ocean
everywhere
LONG LIVE THE WHALES!!!!!!
05-Jun-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof.of Ecology UCLA, Canadian
paul watson@earthlink.com
Well, well, well! It looks like one of our friends the whale finally got one of your bastard wahling boats. One more for the whales, this time by their own hand, er should I say flipper.
05-Jun-98
Whale, Swimming, Is there really such a thing?
Oceans of the World
list of countries which are involved in whaling activities and the types and numbers of whales that they actually kill. It is NOT intended to be extensive nor complete. These numbers can change at any given time.
Norway: Kills 300 Minke every year.
Canada: Kills 2,600 Beluga every year out of total population of 55,000. The IWC has recommended total protection for Belugas. The IWC has been ignored.
Russia: Kills 200 Beluga every year. Wants to resume full scale commercial whaling. Plans to kill at least 200 Gray whales this year.
Alaska: Kill 1,000 Beluga. Kill Bowhead whales every year. Total population less than 2000 animals. Killing by the Inuit protected as, "subsistance hunting."
Greenland: Kills 1,500 Beluga every year.
Japan: Kills 400 Minke whales every year. PLANS TO KILL 1000's in Antarctica.
Iceland: Plans to kill 200 Fin whales. Plans to kill 3,500 Pilot whales.
Denmark: Kills 3500 pilot whales every year.
Chile: Considering resumption of full scale commercial whaling.
Peru: Considering resumption of full scale commercial whaling.
Korea: Considering resumption of full scale commercial whaling.
This is just a partial list and it totals at least 14,400 whales. This total DOES NOT INCLUDE any projected numbers for Chile, Peru, Korea, Russia or Norway. Those countries and others are considering plans to resume commercial whaling, but have not yet published their estimated yearly kills or schedules. With the United States' failure to enforce sanctions, the doors are opened to any other country which would like to resume whaling activities. The whale population cannot stand for such an increase in killing. If only a fraction of the killing that once existed begins again, the world's whales will, once again, be placed in dire danger of extinction
05-Jun-98
sonya, colour coordinator, australian
sonya@qldnet.com.au
interesting and educational for those concerned with the importance of our co-existence with wildlife worldwide.
01-Jun-98
Johanna, student, Swedish
sc6cajoh@agneberg.uddevalla.se
I just wanna wish all the people that slaughter whales and dolphines etc. a nice trip to hell.............
01-Jun-98
Oceanna, Artist, Canadian
osheanna@hotmail.com
What a load of CRAP this site is!!! Your total lack of vision in regard to the health of the oceans and the creatures inhabiting them is clearly demonstrated here. On a more positive note, your site has prompted me to join the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
31-May-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof of Ecology UCLA, Canadian
paulwatson@earthlink.com
THE MORATORIUM ON COMMERCIAL WHALING STANDS. LONG LIVE THE MORATORIUM. NORWEGIAN WHALERS CONTINUE TO BE CRIMINALS.
29-May-98
Brian P., Electrical Engineer PhD., Canadian
perkins@ee.ubc.ca
Some moron wrote:
If the suffering of the animals is the big issue here - why don't folks like Watson campaign against for instance the way muslims slaughter animals - to my knowledge they pull the animal after its hindleg - slit its carotid artery and let it bleed to death. Or how bulls are being used for games in Spain. Now that's what I call suffering, and as far I can see it has no useful meaning to it. Does anyone dare answer?
Why dont u stop shooting up before posting to a guest bk.
Assuming you have a brain try to understand the following. Most people that care about whales oppose all form of animal cruelty and killing. That includes BULLSHIT such as Bull fights, and religious tradition based on nonsense.
Furthermore, even if someone was against whale hunting and supported the cruel Kosher (say) way of killing animals, at least they would be trying to do some good in the world.
BTW Capt. Paul Watson is a Canadian hero, you insult him and you insult all of Canada. I personally take great offence to this. And trust me pal, Canadians dont just take it up the ass without a fight. Understood?
Your web site is pure shit. Why dont you back to counting your money and leading your senseless, selfish lives (if you can call them lives). Be grateful I am taking the time to tell you this.
27-May-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology UCLA, Canadian
PaulWatson@earthlink.com
In answer to your comments Ola Nordmann. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is concerned with marine conservation laws, treaties and regulations. We oppose Norwegian whaling because it is a violation of the International Whaling Commission established moratorium on commercial whaling. We are not an animal rights organization. We are a marine wildlife conservation organization. As for your constant reference to filling our coffers. For your information the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society does not solicit memberships or donations. We do not undertake direct mail campaigns nor do we advertise for contributions. Our membership is international and members search us out to support us financially or by offering their services on our ships and campaigns. We have by the way, some 300 members in Norway. We have also had numerous Norwegian crew-members. Our theatre is not in the U.S. as you stated but in the world's oceans. The majority of our membership is European. As for my credentials as a Prof at UCLA, you can contact the administration at UCLA yourself and confirm this. My course is entitled Honors 24: Science, Technology and Ethics for the 21st Century. You also question my maritime qualifications. My training was with the Norwegian, Swedish, and British merchant marine and the Canadian Coast Guard. I have had twenty years of high seas experience as a Captain and I qualify to command unlimited foreign going. Presently I command two ships and one submarine. This will probably not appease your habit of making blanket accusations without checking your facts but I have answered your queries nonetheless. And I repeat, again in response to your accusations that I am not paid by Sea Shepherd to defend whales. I am a volunteer.
25-May-98
Steve Ness, Carpenter, American
natvik@tss.net
The debate in America ads a new twist as the Makah Indians on the Olympic coast will perhaps take a few whales under a new arrangement. In this country there is lively debate as to the rights of Native Americans and what they can and cannot do. That the Native Americans used to hunt these large whales from oar paddled canoes and spend days on the open waters is a little like the Viking tales. In any case "good luck", we know you will take only those whales the Viking gods allow. Steve
22-May-98
Ola Nordmann, medical student, Norwegian
norsk@nordmann.no
Katty,
I agree - whaling is not for the good for the whales themselves. But most of us do it meat, and I can't really see the big difference. Whalers continously try to come up with more humane methods of hunting them, striving to limit the suffering of the animals. All Norwegian whaling ships are under stric authority scrutiny to see to it that all things are performed in a prudent way.
If the suffering of the animals is the big issue here - why don't folks like Watson campaign against for instance the way muslims slaughter animals - to my knowledge they pull the animal after its hindleg - slit its carotid artery and let it bleed to death. Or how bulls are being used for games in Spain. Now that's what I call suffering, and as far I can see it has no useful meaning to it. Does anyone dare answer?
22-May-98
Ola Nordmann, medical student, Norwegian
norsk@nordmann.no
.....sorry Watson, I got it wrong - you're of course Canadian. But it doesn't make much of a difference though - your main theatre is in the U.S., no?
22-May-98
Ola Nordmann, medical student, Norwegian
norsk@nordmann.no
Captain Watson, First of all - why "Captain"? OK, you probably root for the U.S., but are you somehow affiliated with the Military? Why don't you try to kill some of your own breed before going off to Europe? Are you afraid that you will be perceived as militant? I suspect that would not contributed to your coffers, that's the reason I'd guess. Prove it wrong! Where can I look up your academic merits?
20-May-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology (UCLA), Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
The High North Alliance has been saying that the Makah whale hunt is being organized for subsistence and cultural survival reasons by the Makah tribal council. If this is so then how come two members of the Tribal Council of the Makah went to Japan last week to negotiate for the sale of whale meat from the Makah to Japan. This so called "aborginal hunt" is in reality a front for Japanese commercial whaling interests.
19-May-98
Kathy Chelini, Chemical Engineer / Engineering Manager, US
kenna@kersur.net
I find this site to be nothing more than propoganda for the "pro-cruelty" and "pro-profit-regardless-of-the-consequences" movement.
I find it hard to believe that otherwise educated people accept the myth that suffering and murder are for the "good" of animals or mankind.
18-May-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology - UCLA, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
Mr. Nordman, For your information, I am not nor have I ever been paid by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. I have a job thank-you as a Prof and University Lecturer. Maybe you should do a little research before making accusations based on prejudical opinion.
17-May-98
Ola Nordmann, medical student, Norwegian
norsk@nordmann.no
....og Runar - du er en Quisling, ikke en nordmann. Bli i USA, du er nok mer ønsket der!
17-May-98
Ola Nordmann, medical student, Norwegian
norsk@nordmann.no
Anyone against whaling should consider the following:
1. Do you eat meat? If yes, how can you condemn others doing so? 2. Do you know that there is a difference between dogs and wolves? There *is* a difference, one of the two species is at risk, the other not. The same goes for different species of whales. We don't hunt the endangered ones. 3. Is there a difference between animal and Man? Well, if you ask Mr. Watson, the big-profiteer on international whaling it's OK to kill human beings as long as he can fill his pockets with bucks. 4. Is Norway an indenpendent country? Yes, very much so, and I *refuse the idea of U.S legislation trying to change that fact. Same story as with the Helms-Burton act (American slaugher of innocent Cubans) - you have to get to grips with the fact that you simply cannot dictate other nations what to do.
THINK!
...and Mr. Watson, I really think that deep in your heart you don't long for a Norwegian moratorium. Why? Well, then you'd be on the dole!
Best regards,
Ola Nordmann
ps. Hurra for Norge, det er 17. mai!! d.s.
16-May-98
Pierre A Renaud, Citizen, Canada
yendred@videotron.ca
Another lamentable pro-hunting site trying to legitimize itself with arguments based on traditions, greed, cynism and lack of compassion. Thanks for Capt. Watson for having significantly upgraded High North Web with his guestbook comments.
16-May-98
Runar, Filmmaker, US & Norwegian
radonis@hotmail.com
I think, simply stated that ANY form of whaling should be illegal, punishable by strict jailsentences!!! But after all, as I know, people doing this, with an IQ of about "1", a literary vocabulary of zero, living up in the North....are well.......JUST FUCKING STUPID! The world will always be full of fucking idiots! Altså....en hel gjeng med drittsekker! WAKE UP AND GET SOME EDUCATION FOR GOD SAKE!
09-May-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof of Ecology - UCLA, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
One more thing Mr. Pinkson. I see you call yourself a conservation officer. Is this what they are calling pro-industry bureaucrats these days. Canada kills whales illegally. Last year the United States sent a strongly worded letter of protest concerning the unlawful taking of a Bowhead in the Arctic. Most of the whale was discarded and wasted. I don't see anything remotely resembling conservation in that act but I bet you were supportive of it.
09-May-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof. of Ecology (UCLA) Founder - Sea Shepherd Co, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
Well Mr. Pinkson, It was heartening to see that you wrote "close to the truth" thus recognizing the validity of our claim that Norwegian whaling is a violation of the commercial moratorium. Now suppose that the IWC did break up. This would be because Norway and Japan and other pro-whaling nations withdraw. If this happens, the United States would be forced by law to enforce the terms of the Packwood Magnusen Act and the fish products of the nations that continue to whale would be embargoed from entry in the United States. Case in point. Iceland has withdrew from the IWC. Iceland announced earlier this year that they would take 100 Minke whales. Last week they announced that they would not. What happened. Well, the U.S. State Department did some explaining to Iceland of the consequences of Packwood Magnusen. So you see Mr. Pinkson, we would welcome the withdrawal of the whaling nations from the IWC. In fact it is because of the IWC that Norway and Japan get away with the killing of whales because they have this pretense that they are working within the spirit of whale conservation. As for your term "terrorist". We terrify nobody. We have never injured a single person. We have simply attacked pirate whaling operations as defined by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission. We act in accordance with the United Nations World Charter for Nature. You should take the time to look up the conditions of implementation before you ignorantly spout rhetoric concerning issues you obviously know nothing about. Captain Paul Watson Founder and International President - Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
08-May-98
S. Pinksen, Conservation Officer, Canadian
Stephen_Pinksen@gov.nt.ca
There are rumours that the upcoming IWC meeting in Oman might see the end of the organization. It seems a bit of an impasse has developed regarding whale management, and there are concerns that it may break-up (Environmental News Network, May 8, 1998)
Suppose that happened, thereby taking the only thing even close to the truth out of the Sea Shepherds' bullshit excuses for being terrorists (you know, how they are "Illegal" whalers, "Criminals", blah, blah, blah), what would their story be then?
07-May-98
Howdy Doody, Wooden Doll, Oak Tree
killwhitey@WhoKnows.com
I really think that the website that you have created really sucks!
07-May-98
jim williams, whale hunting, american
earthrust.org/iwc96/eco4.html
it sucks really bad!!!!!!!!!!
05-May-98
rick, pro. trapper , pipefitter, u.s.a.
trapman99@aol.com
i can only hope that the "other" people reading this site will gain more education in our principles. as that is our only hope!!!! thanks,good info. rick
04-May-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof.UCLA. Master Mariner. Pres. Sea Shepherd, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
Tick tock, tick tock, the time approaching Oman is drawing near. Now what would be an appropriate measure to recognize the meeting? Responding to a meeting of non-action with action might work. I wonder. glug, glug, glug. Who's it to be. Well let me see. Only time will tell. For the Whales Forever.
29-Apr-98
Captain Paul Watson, Marine Wildlife Conservationist, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
Very interesting Mr. Click. Like the whalers and sealers don't use plastic and drive automobiles. The problem is Mr. Click that it is not illegal to useplastic or drive automobiles. The killing of whales by Norway is a violation of the international moritorium and thus it is illegal. Yes we ram their vessels and yes we sink them and yes we will continue to do so because they are pirate whalers, outlaw whalers, illegal whalers, in short they are criminals. I am a Master Mariner raised in an Eastern Canadian fishing village. My family has a long tradition of going to sea. I think that my family is just as deserving as any sealing or whaling family when it comes to warranting respect as seafarers. I think Mr. Click that you have a problem with environmentalist. Perhaps they have caused you some trouble or costs you some money. Whatever the root of your animosity is it does not give you the right to determine who is a sailor and who is not. I can tell you that my crew and I have weathered more adverse conditions than the whalers of Norway whose experience is for the most part confined to the North Sea. We sail the world's oceans. We have experienced the hurricanes and the typhoons, the doldrums and the williwaws. Perhaps you don't care about international laws. WE do. Perhaps you don't care about protecting endangered species and stopping the destruction of fish resources. We do. So Mr. Click take your self righteous judgement of who is a seafarer and who is not and shove it up your sanctimonious ass. Sincerely Captain Paul Watson Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
29-Apr-98
Norlyn Click, Businessman, USA
nclick@cfw.com
To the Crew and Families of the whaling communities around the world:
For centuries man has made the waters of this world his home. We have fought the waves and tides and from them gathered her bounty to sustain our lives and the lives of our loved ones. The sea is littered with the wrecks of our vessels and the men who followed them to the bottom. Many a sailor’s last dance was played upon the gales of the four winds and stage of waters that flowed beneath them. For some the life of the sea is all they know and for that matter all they care to know. Those who dwell upon the land for their lives entirety do not know the power of the waters they navigate and the torrents of nature that they can face. Few fisherman communities today have one or two family’s who have not lost loved ones to the deep waters. You Ram your ships into theirs and scuttle their livelyhood and curse them for their “destruction of the Environment”. While you use your plastics and disposables and drive you old cars and use your indoor plumbing that pumps into the running waters. You are foolish and the truth is not in you whatsoever. So what will you conservationists give up if they give up their whaling? Will you give up your cars and motor transportation? Your indoor plumbing? Hypocrasy knows no limits and spares not the ‘Wise’. My prayer is that the crew and familys of the whalers make Godspeed in their voyages and that not a harm come to even one hair upon their head.
Be mercy and grace to them all!
Norlyn Click Partner, C.I.T.
25-Apr-98
Earl Wilson, Biologist, Businessman, Canadian
ewilson@cedar.alberni.net
Re:Makah Traditional Whale Hunt. Hey, I am of Norwegian ancestry and have decided to take up our traditional pasttime of going over to England for some good old raping and pillaging as my Viking fathers did before me. I am in training know to be sure I will be "pure of heart" and that it will be really good for me culturally. I promise (maybe) not to make any commercial profit off the pillaging. It would be great if we good get a big group together to share the cost of a few assault rifles. I asked o8ur government for some cash for them but they told me that being a Norwegian minority wasn't good enough for a hand out. Tried to E-mailed the Makah to see if I could borrow theirs on their off season but they seem to be down for the duration. All of non Norwegians who would like to particpate in this traditional cultural event we can fix you up with an honorary Norwegian certificate for a few days for 0only twenty bucks a day. So let me know how. PS: You can always fake the "pure of the heart" shit if that scareas you off.
17-Apr-98
Zam, webmistress, NORSK/Norwegian
inca.yupanqui@os.telia.no
Maybe some order must be to maintain the ballance between man and animal,(before man interfered nature held it's order by itself, and it's man to blame it is no ballance now, so thank yourself) but I can't defend hash and prohibided killing methods either if it is seal or whales. The thing I know, is that the Norwegian state substitue your survival, and without that, you wouldn't be able to live from hunting these mammals. Anyway, when people do not suffer from hunger or cold, they do not need the meat, nor the seal coats to survive. Women who buys such clothing are not apearing to be anything else than biboes in my opinion, or right down ignorant and selfish. If someone took away my income , I understand it would be hard, but I do not think I would work with anything that depended on the state to give me any money, it would be like begging at the social aid office, but the people there don't have to go and kill to get their money from the state. I do understand that it isn't easy, but as far as I have any opinion, I only accept the native people's of minorities to have the right to hunt whale or seal to feed themselves and no commercial hunt. In this country or Canada there is no hunger or femine as far as I know....and the one's eating, killing or abuse nature, creating environmental disasters & inballance, and making distinct all the fish and animals is man, not the animals. This world is only about money, and it will be a future where your children will be punished for your actions...that is, if there is any environment left to live in for man. Well, like I always say: One get what one ask for, and if money and material gain is the destructor of this earth, the earth must get rid of the parasites destructing it. (It sounds pretty fanatic, but it's only to put it on the edge of what really can happen.)
13-Apr-98
Macariana Lewis, http://www.school.com, Brasilian
ma_ca@cosmicmail.com
Hello! I have been amazed with such information that i have found here this is completly interesting! I loved it! if you could please send me some infromation abnout this page i would really appreciate it my email is:ma_ca@cosmicmail.com!! Please write to me! thank you! ____---------------- ----------------------- - ------ - --- --------- ----
11-Apr-98
Captain Paul Watson, Prof of Ecology at UCLA, Canadian
PaulWatson@Earthlink.com
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has just completed it's campaign to the ice floesof Eastern Canada to focus attention on the Canadian seal hunt. No seals were killed during the first 10 days of the "hunt" although Canada kept two ice-breakers and a detachmentof Mounted Police on our ass for the whole expedition. We brought in media crews from Australia, Austria, Germany, France, the USA, and Canada. I'm back in Los Angeles now teaching my class at the University of Californa at Los Angeles (UCLA). This information is for the benefit of the Norwegian Government because they always complain that they never know where I am. The Whale Wars continue I'm afraid and you just never know when we will strike again now do you?
07-Apr-98
Andrew Horvath, Computer System Analyst, USA
ahorvath@gte.net
I think it is fair, you hunt whales, Sea Shepherd hunts you. This is the new ecological equilibrium.
27-Mar-98
Jennifer Schumacher, University Librarian, New Zealander
jen_lc@nicuc.ac.jp
Great site, and an excellent resource for students and researchers.
20-Mar-98
Petrea Jónsdóttir, Housewife, Icelandic
petrea@xd.is
I find this most interesting and informing.
thank you.
19-Mar-98
Alan Fisk, Writer, English
alanfisk@yahoo.com
I am a former resident of Newfoundland. Is there a website or e-mail address for the Canadian Sealers Association? I have been successful in having letters to the editor published in newspapers here to rebut the propaganda put out by organisations such as the International Fund for Animal Welfare. I'm looking for a source to keep me updated with the latest news and facts about the Newfoundland seal hunt.
14-Mar-98
Robin Goubin, student, Belgium
goubin.raes@skynet.be
Whale hunters are serial killers and should be arrested for endangering life in all its ways. All the arguments you've put on your site are total bullshit. We will not rest until all of you are extinct! You're all murderours!
12-Mar-98
Arne Vinar, Hval oljer og helse, Norsk+
vinar@online.no
Hei og takk for sist , det var mye bra stoff du sente til meg . Men det er enn del problemer enda , hvis du kan hjelpe meg med å få tak i et rafeneri som kan presse litt for meg hadde det vært fint . Hilsen Arne
11-Mar-98
the sluicer, sleuth, hobbyist, handyperson, American
Seuss@quaalogs.com
Why do you still kill whales??
11-Mar-98
the sluicer, sleuth, hobbyist, handyperson, American
Seuss@quaalogs.com
You people make me sick! Why do you still kill whales?? Largescale hunting on land has been outlawed in most civilized countries for decades. Don't you get that unless you are willing to replenish as many as you take, all hunting is necessarily destructive?
11-Mar-98
Everyone, Philosopher, humanist, Universal
qualogs@commonsense.com
This site is full of crap! You fail to prove your (weak) points about the sustainability of whaling. Large mammals have been hunted to extinction in the wild on land and sea. What makes you beleive that you can continue this activity without negatively affecting the environment?
11-Mar-98
Dr Garry Marvin, Anthropologist, British
G.Marvin@roehampton.ac.uk
Back again. I am trying now to find out something about the social/cultural significance of whaling in the Faroes. Can anyone help? Many thanks
11-Mar-98
Garry Marvin, Anthropologist, British
G.Marvin@roehampton.ac.uk
Fascinating site. I am an anthropologist interested in hunting. Any other anthropologists (historians, sociologists etc)out there and looking at these pages who has similar interests?
11-Mar-98
The Lord Jesus Christ, Godhead, All World Nations are mine
shephard@jesus.com
You are making a big mistake in assuming you can kill whales at will. You will suffer the consequences.
10-Mar-98
Doug Lamecker, Journalist and whaling history buff, Yankee
lamec001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
Some whales should be hugged, some whales need to be hunted. Hugged, photographed, studied for the endangered species like the Right whale. Hunting in a responsible way, to preserve a species is not a bad thing. I would like to witness the hunt first- hand.
10-Mar-98
whale lovers, technical editor, American
love@gunny.com
eat shit, dirtbags!
02-Mar-98
S Melin, Computer Programmer, Sweden
mel@mks.se
It's amazing. I understand you even receive money from the Norwegian state. To run a propaganda war in favour of killing intelligent mammals. I just wonder, how can you guys look yourself in the eyes every morning? If I wasn't already a member, I'd join the Sea Shepherds right now.
27-Feb-98
jeff tabvahtah, University student, Inuk (Inuit)
jtabvaht@callisto.uwinnipeg.ca
Finally, some information I can use. Thanks a lot, maybe now those qallunaaqs will learn the truth, not the lies. Keep up the good work. Remember folks, do your research before you jump on the next environmental banned wagon, you could be doing more harm than good. Hunter in exile, Jeff taralik Tabvahtah
26-Feb-98
Captain Paul Watson, Whale Conservationist & Prof of Ecology, Canadian/U.S.
PaulWatson@Earthlink.net
I thought I might direct your attention to the March issue of the Norwegian language edition of Playboy. There is a cover article entitled (20 Sporsmal Paul Watson Norges Skrekk). The four page article begins on Page 94. The intro reads "Hvalfangst-Norges erkefiende nummer en, kaptein Paul Watson, om fengselsoppholdet, truslene fra hval-fangermiljoet, og hvorfor han mener han har rett til a bryte nasjonale lover" It really is a must read for all you whalers out there. Enjoy. I'm off to harass the sealers in March and maybe after that we might see what we can do to make the Norwegian insurance companies nervous again.
24-Feb-98
Sigbjorn Linga, Student, Norwegian
lingas@wartburg.edu
Excellent website, but it should be updated from time to time.
21-Feb-98
Sigbjørn H. Storli, Veterinær, Norsk
shstorli@online.no
21-Feb-98
Sigbjørn H. Storli, Veterinær, Norsk
shstorli@online.no
06-Feb-98
Kaori Nakai, Translator, Japanese
kaori-s2@amitaj.or.jp
I like your objective attitude on whaling.
03-Feb-98
Marlene Atleo, Student, Nuu-chah-nulth, Canada
maratleo@island.net
Good stuff on links between disease, nutrition & culture!!
03-Feb-98
Annabel Carlino, Student, American
ajcarli@beta.loyno.edu
01-Feb-98
Nicholas Fagundo, Student, Bermudian/Canadian
npfgnd@mailserv.mta.ca
I feel that this site is amazing. It clearly demonstrates the need for exposing emotionally overwrought people to the relevant scientific data, which is relevant to the topic in question.
Congratulations Nick Fagundo
28-Jan-98
Priyanka Kanse, Student, british
JellyStar9
I am very concerned about whaling . At school I am doing a project on it . I would be grateful if you sent me an e-mail with an address, which I could write to to receive more information .
Thank you very much .
23-Jan-98
Danny Kwan, Student, USA
dykwan@uci.edu
What an outstanding collection of views and facts about whaling! I thank you for producing this web page. It has certainly challenged my views of whaling. I admit that before I only took one side because of the lack of perspective arguments. Reading through some of the points made in the 'An insight into the ethical arguments' article, I find that my views of whaling are contradictory to my lifestyle. It is not right for me to condone the actions of others when I don't know anything about them. I guess this is all too familiar in generalizing and making stereotypes. I respect the rights of those who live in the coastal communities of Norwaay to earn a living from the sea by utilizing renewable, natural resources such as the minke whales. My biggest concern is that hunting will increase beyond the present quota levels which I agree with. I would be against hunting whales beyond sustainable levels. My best wishes in continuing the struggle to maintain your independence and not be ruled by 'popular opinion' that is based on emotions rather than facts.
13-Jan-98
kim høegh, management, Greenland
sisimiut.tusaataat.93mz@greennet.gl
Thanks for this good idea to information about our high north.
12-Jan-98
Torill Münter, journalist, N
tomuente@online.no
Hva om HNA initierer at NAMMCO fortsetter suksessen og arrangerer konferansen "Whaling - the Future"? På Reine!
08-Jan-98
Sören Johansson, Fisheri Director in the County of Västerbotten, Swedish
soren.johansson@ac.lst.se
03-Jan-98
Marcus Erickson, Computer Analyst, Swedish/Norwegian-American
Ericksonm@connext.com
Your site is one of the most dubious I have ever signed on to. Not only do you twist established scientific facts about whales (so who cares whether-or-not whales aren't monogamous? Most humans I know aren't either!) but you attempt to present an industry with a very dark history in a benign light. The slaughter of the various whale species during the past 100 years was as barbaric as it was greed induced. There was no sensible self-policing... whalers would kill calves to get to the mothers and pregnant females were slaughtered. Even today the whaling industry is a sham... what is a "scientific" hunt? Talk about "double talk" and trying to pull the wool over the public's eyes! The so-called scientific hunt is nothing more than a covert hunt for commerical gain, albeit on a smaller scale. Ice- landic whalers have been caught selling their takes from the so called scientific hunts to the Japanese, another country that is clearly in violation of the agreed upon conditions of the moritorium on hunting. DNA samples of whale meat on sale in Japan have revealed such forbidden species as the Blue and Humpback whales.
The reason why there should be no commercial whaling allowed is it is an industry that defies all regulations (when you're out in the middle of the Atlantic or deep in the Antartica, who's going to be around to catch you violating the rules?!). Further more, the whaling community has proven itself to be untrustworthy and solely motivated by greed. Why else are the world's whale populations so severely in danger?
Shame on you and your efforts to distort the facts and cover up the true dark history of whaling. I'm going to double my contribution to the Sea Shepard Society so they can sink the next Norwegian, Icelandic, or Japanese whaling ship that tries to murder an animal with intelligence that exceeds yours.
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