GSRswapandslow
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Not completely true. This is taken from http://www.madmermaids.com/stop_killing_whales.htmlYou are mistaken on this. It is NOT illegal to hunt whales in the open seas. It is against the laws in alot of countries, but not world wide.
Not completely true. This is taken from http://www.madmermaids.com/stop_killing_whales.html
un f@$#ing believable!Not completely true. This is taken from http://www.madmermaids.com/stop_killing_whales.html
A big anti whaling group.
The Ban and the Loophole
In 1982, the International Whaling Commission voted with the necessary three thirds majority to implement a pause on commercial whaling by 1986.
The moratorium (ban) on commercial whaling, that has lasted for twenty years, unfortunately left provision for limited whaling under a scientific research permit. Japan initially objected to the moratorium but withdrew its objection in the face of the threat of economic sanctions made by the United States.
Therefore, Japan became bound by the moratorium, unlike Norway, Russia and Iceland who had not signed. In 1987 Japan stopped it’s commercial whaling activities in Antarctic waters, but in the same year began it’s scientific whaling program called JARPA (Japanese Research Program in Antarctica).
Exploiting the loophole in the legislation the scientific research started killing whales using the same boats, crew and equipment in the same area of the Pacific Ocean as the commercial whaling did prior to the moratorium. The only difference being the façade of scientific research.

beam me up scotty,there's no intelligent life down here and hurry up, i hear banjo music.

beam me up scotty,there's no intelligent life down here and hurry up, i hear banjo music.