Do you think Japan will succed in ending the ban on commercial whaling at the IWC (in a few days) in Alaska? The International Whaling Commission will meet in Anchorage, Alaska, at the end of May, and everything hangs in the balance. The pro-whaling nations of Japan, Iceland, and Norway are on the verge of winning the majority of votes, which could lead to commercial whaling being reopened for the first time in 20 years.

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It will be tragic if the IWC permits commercial whaling again. Even with strict quotas, which are easy to circumvent, the whale population will drop again.

Japan gets to kill 700 minke whales each year for %26quot;research%26quot; purposes, which is ridiculous. Why isn%26#039;t the number seven, or even 70? But 700? Nobody does %26quot;research%26quot; on 700 whales that weigh as much as 7,000 pounds each.

The Japanese also have restaurants that sell whale burgers. 67% 2 Votes

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• No but its only a matter of time. 0% 0 Votes
• I certainly hope so, I would like to be able to buy a little bit of whale meat now and then. It is very tasty. 0% 0 Votes
• It will be a disaster if the ban is lifted. It%26#039;s rediculous enough that the Japanese have gotten away with so called scientific studies.
  What is there to learn from dead whales?? 0% 0 Votes
• They will not end the ban, but they will undoubtedly make great strides to loosen the reigns and expand their current %26quot;research%26quot; whaling. I expect they will succeed in doubling their current takes. personal SWAG 0% 0 Votes
• LET US HOPE NOT. OUR EA RH IS VICIOUSLY ATTACKED BY POLLUTANTS, WARMING, OVER UTILIZATION OF MANY RESOURCES, AND JUST NEGLECTED. IT NEEDS A TIME TO REGROUP, OR THERE MAY BE VANISHING SPECIES, AS WELL AS UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES. 0% 0 Votes
• Face the fact that whales are consuming marine resouces including fish you eat very much.
  If you don%26#039;t need fish, I wouldn%26#039;t say anything. 0% 0 Votes
• What ban - they kill thopusands of minkies and hundred larger whales already.
  
  And what you learn from dead whales is just how toxic the sea has become and how poisonous whale meat is. 0% 0 Votes
• i hope that they dont get the ban removed but no one is going to listen to what i have to say there are a ton of things that happen on a daily basis that i dont agree with but do the big shots in the government care what i think....... 0% 0 Votes
• I hope not , but pro-whalers will be spending quite a sizable bundle lobbying for the ban to end. Remember, there%26#039;s a ton of money to be made in the whaling industry otherwise they%26#039;d abandon the industry altogether. 33% 1 Vote