Adittedly most of my info is based on things heard/read ages ago, but here are some sources I googled tonight.
News of Iceland's whaling & general info BBC News 3 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6074230.stm)
News as above and a pic of a whale carcass, so it seems there's a lot of wastage ... Greenpeace (http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/iceland-resumes-commercial-wha)
International Whaling Commission page with estimates of whale numbers by area and type the IWC numbers (http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/estimate.htm)
Whale killing methods and how slow it can be, Methods here at BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3847167.stm)
and an article which is linked from it BBC and views on whale death (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3542987.stm)
Whalewatch's site FAQs on whaling (admittedly they might be biased) Whalewatch, cited by the BBC (http://www.whalewatch.org/en/default.asp?pageid=5)
Plus a Japanese whaling site with a marine biologist's view of things (as I read it it he was essentially saying we need to take a more careful, balanced and forward looking approach but I was sklimming) Good or bad (http://luna.pos.to/whale/jwa_v14_tafe.html)
And given all the fish we can and do catch and all the animals we farm is there a need for whaling beyond it conmforming to a 'cultural history' and despite what the marine biologist says many of us have grown out of killing people we dislike or capturing someone else's livestock or women for our own ...
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Date: 2006-10-26 10:18 pm (UTC)News of Iceland's whaling & general info
BBC News 3 days ago (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6074230.stm)
News as above and a pic of a whale carcass, so it seems there's a lot of wastage ...
Greenpeace (http://oceans.greenpeace.org/en/the-expedition/news/iceland-resumes-commercial-wha)
International Whaling Commission page with estimates of whale numbers by area and type
the IWC numbers (http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/estimate.htm)
Whale killing methods and how slow it can be,
Methods here at BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3847167.stm)
and an article which is linked from it
BBC and views on whale death (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3542987.stm)
Whalewatch's site FAQs on whaling (admittedly they might be biased)
Whalewatch, cited by the BBC (http://www.whalewatch.org/en/default.asp?pageid=5)
Plus a Japanese whaling site with a marine biologist's view of things (as I read it it he was essentially saying we need to take a more careful, balanced and forward looking approach but I was sklimming)
Good or bad (http://luna.pos.to/whale/jwa_v14_tafe.html)
And given all the fish we can and do catch and all the animals we farm is there a need for whaling beyond it conmforming to a 'cultural history' and despite what the marine biologist says many of us have grown out of killing people we dislike or capturing someone else's livestock or women for our own ...