Here's a typical Norwegian coastal whaling boat leaving harbour. The boat is 25m long. A typical quota for a boat this size would be 15-20 minkie whales.
Also I would like to add that on the face of it, Norway is deeply religious country; which is why there is nothing to do on Sundays and why there is no public transport over the easter break.
Waste of time really. Brutally torturing and slaying one of your Gods most innocent and perfect creations gets you a one way ticket to the hot place down south (and I'm not talking about Hawai)...
Perhaps if Norway was to abandon whaling to the past where it belongs, then they might have more political sway when it comes to persuading the UK to stop dumping caesium 139 and Cobaly 69 into the Irish sea thus radio actively polluting the Norwegian coast.
I think you're all a dying breed. I have been living and working in Southern Norway for nearly a year and no-one (O.K. maybe one but he is a not exactly the picture of physical or mental health)I have met is pro whaling and they find the matter both embarrasing and a moot point in general.
Keep eating the Minke steaks, keep absorbing the toxins they contain and have as many sickly deformed infants as you think you can sustain on it.
I have dived with Minke's and the experience was profound. They are gentle, intelligent, sensitive creatures and they actually care about each other and make frequent bodily contact with each other. I learnt more about the animal in one hour of diving than any of you can ever dream of in a lifetime of senseless and barbaric predation.
Whale watching and Tourism alone would net the communities or (komunes)of the Northern Norway far more revenue than hunting and it is truly sustainable.
OK, thanks Rune for the explanation, and the map was very clarifying.... frankly, never heard about Smutthavet, however I know about the Smutthullet and especially the fish transferring ships(omlastningsfartyg)that operate in the area.
IWC minke areas in international waters between the NEZ and Jan Mayen are CM (Jan Mayen area), EW and ES. In Norwegian these international waters are called "Smutthavet", while "Smutthullet" is the area between Norwegian and Russian waters. Rune Frøvik, High North Alliance
If WDCS is sooo sure that the "so-called" scientific whaling is not indeed whaling for scientific purposes, why should they care that Iceland come out and say that they are going to hunt LESS whales (I think 39 is less than has been hunted for research each year) next year but for commercial purposes?
It's very hard to think in the same dreamworld as WDCS and these other groups to imagine that what they say could be anything like reality at all...
Also I would like to add that on the face of it, Norway is deeply religious country; which is why there is nothing to do on Sundays and why there is no public transport over the easter break.
Waste of time really. Brutally torturing and slaying one of your Gods most innocent and perfect creations gets you a one way ticket to the hot place down south (and I'm not talking about Hawai)...
Perhaps if Norway was to abandon whaling to the past where it belongs, then they might have more political sway when it comes to persuading the UK to stop dumping caesium 139 and Cobaly 69 into the Irish sea thus radio actively polluting the Norwegian coast.
I think you're all a dying breed. I have been living and working in Southern Norway for nearly a year and no-one (O.K. maybe one but he is a not exactly the picture of physical or mental health)I have met is pro whaling and they find the matter both embarrasing and a moot point in general.
Keep eating the Minke steaks, keep absorbing the toxins they contain and have as many sickly deformed infants as you think you can sustain on it.
I have dived with Minke's and the experience was profound. They are gentle, intelligent, sensitive creatures and they actually care about each other and make frequent bodily contact with each other. I learnt more about the animal in one hour of diving than any of you can ever dream of in a lifetime of senseless and barbaric predation.
Whale watching and Tourism alone would net the communities or (komunes)of the Northern Norway far more revenue than hunting and it is truly sustainable.
1edb79f8cc5c Very good
Thanks for the clarification Rune, I usually mix them both up 😉
Oh yeah, now I know what Smutthavet is, there has been an international pirate fishing fleet in this area fishing for red fish(?) snabeluer, I recall.
Greenpeace have monitored this pirate fishing fleet together with the Icelandic Coast Guard.
I believe the same fleet was detained in Kaliningrad some weeks ago by Russian authorities.
OK, thanks Rune for the explanation, and the map was very clarifying.... frankly, never heard about Smutthavet, however I know about the Smutthullet and especially the fish transferring ships(omlastningsfartyg)that operate in the area.
Re. international waters adjacent to Norwegian waters:
http://www.fisheries.no/NR/rdonlyres/859F606D-51A7-4F03-9BE3-A543ACE1E6F5/56040/nez800px.gif
IWC minke areas in international waters between the NEZ and Jan Mayen are CM (Jan Mayen area), EW and ES. In Norwegian these international waters are called "Smutthavet", while "Smutthullet" is the area between Norwegian and Russian waters. Rune Frøvik, High North Alliance
Statements like this are the most bizarre:
"Iceland now plans to end its so-called scientific hunt in 2007 and begin hunting whales commercially".
http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/EFF99D84E08C36838025720A005A2F46
If WDCS is sooo sure that the "so-called" scientific whaling is not indeed whaling for scientific purposes, why should they care that Iceland come out and say that they are going to hunt LESS whales (I think 39 is less than has been hunted for research each year) next year but for commercial purposes?
It's very hard to think in the same dreamworld as WDCS and these other groups to imagine that what they say could be anything like reality at all...