When you have an oriental population that eats 2000 blue fin tuna a day (1000 frozen and 1000 fresh), it is no wonder why the tuna are being depleted. Krill, which whales eat, are now being used as a source of Omega 3 oils.

WIth the global warming of the Asiatic seas, krill, and the fish that eat them are moving north. Additionally, Japan has the worst pollution in the world. With landfills no longer available, plastics are burned at an incredible daily rate and emptied into our planet’s atmosphere. The local result is fish that cannot be eaten. And so Japan goes to other countries and takes their fish.

When you consider the advanced technology of today versus one hundred years ago, man has become an effective killer and collector. In one day and with one fishing trawler, 7,000 blue fin tuna can be caught. That’s just one ship. Multiply that by minimally one thousand commercial ships around the world and you begin to see that man is the problem and not whales.

Iceland claims the whales eat their smaller fish. Well, Iceland is also on the brink of bankruptcy as a country. You mean that a whale has caused this – without computers, internet or any technology? Wow, these whales must be far smarter than we give them credit!

Japan claims their right of tradition to hunt whales. Technology of today allows them, if unchecked, to kill thousands. Japan has depleted their own waters, polluted the air and changed the marine environment over the past 50 years. And whale meat constitutes only 1% of their diet. Keeping that number in mind, in 1999 Japan had stockpiled 1800 tons of frozen whale meat. As of 2010 it is 5600 tons. And because the younger generation does not like whale meat, Japan officials have now begun making whale meat into flavored hot dogs and hamburgers. And they have begun forcing whale meat into parochial schools!

So it is all PR when you hear Japan and Iceland claiming how whales are ruining their fishing business. Especially when Japanese officials have been caught (as recent as this past week), accepting whale meat as gifts from the private whaling companies they contracted to do the whaling. They also have been bribing Russian guards to overlook their fishing quotas and ignore what they really have been catching. And by the way, Japanese officials reported that only 53 pounds of whale meat could be accounted for as gifts over the span of ten years. (I wonder where the rest went?)

We are just on the verge of understanding these creatures and their contribution to this tiny blue planet. And using such rhetoric as documented “sustainable populations” really only means how much whale meat can be sustained in the refrigerator of a Japanese official.