A new fisheries paper, Fiskeribladet, states that the Norweigan whaling and sealing industries are in serious trouble.
According to the Marine Research Institute (Havsforskningsinstituttet), the seals in the East Ice Area (off Russia) and the minkes in the North East Atlantic are consuming as much fish as the entire Norwegian fisheries fleet.
“That’s why it is important that the quotas must be filled”, states the Board for the Ship Owner’s Association (member of the High North Alliance).
They state as well that they are not satisfied with the Government’s ambitions regarding whaling and sealing.
So far, Tuesday April 15, no whaling boats have left the ports, despite higher whale meat prices.
“We believe this is as well due to bad weather conditions, it’s still almost winter,” said a spokesman for the whalers and fishermen.
Rieber Skinn AS in Bergen, a subsidiary to GC Rieber (the world’s biggest purchaser of Canadian seal pelts) will close down. They will reopen a processing factory in Canada. Does this mean that most Norwegian seal pelts will be processed in Canada?
http://www.fiskeribladetfiskaren.no/?side=101&lesmer=6951
Cheers,
Ann
Sweden
Thanks David.
A minke whale landed in Korea today:
http://imgnews.naver.com/image/001/2008/04/22/PYH2008042205680005300_P2.jpg
This time there were no signs of "foul play" (if whaling could be described as such?), and it was sold off for 34,500,000 sk won (35,000+ AUD).
Original (if you can read it, I can't):
http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=001&aid=0002056320
Yes, that's me.
Hi Laila,
Thanks for the clarification. Btw , are you the Laila, the new Secretary of the High North Alliance?
If so , I welcome you to participate here in our whales discussions circle.
"I haven't seen this ( computer problems) but it seems it should be a video from a Norwegian whaling boat :
http://www.op.no/lesernes/filmer/article3464242.ece"
Ann, this is Norwegian whaling in the fifties/early sixties. Historic films from whaling operations in the Antarctic.
Ian,
We've covered this issue in previous posts.
Eg., David wrote:
"They developed the original penthrite grenade which was a huge improvement on previous methods employed (by those who today criticise the hell out of whaling nations), by the mid 1990's they had improved the instantaneous death rate (IDR) to just under 30%, and by the time they introduced an "improved" penthrite grenade in the 2002 JARPA season the IDR had improved to over 50%, and the TTD down."
More at:-
https://climatelab.com.au/blog/archives/002101.html
"I år har hvalfangerne fått en kvote som teller 1052 vågehval. Ifølge Stortingsmelding nr. 27 om norsk sjøpattedyrpolitikk har norske fangstmetoder forbedret seg over tid, men fortsatt risikerer vågehvalene en smertefull død."
Roughly translated : This year the quota is set to 1052 minke whales. According to report no 27 from the Parliament re Norwegian marine mammal policy , has Norwegian whale killing methods improved during a period , but still the minkes are in the risk zone from dying a painful death.
Travis just can't comprehend that an exploding bullet in the brain will produce a quicker death than a simple bullet or harpoon. The explosive provides a much larger margin for error. And a lot faster death than an Orca trying to rip out a whales tongue. Get real bozo.
And again we must ask Ann to clarify. Where did the ten minutes time frame come from? The quote you gave only made mention of "up to an hour", it did not link the 1 in 5 with the ten minutes.
And again we must ask, how did they distinguish between the movements of live animals and the twitching of dead ones?
And well me should ask, what proportion of the animals that were not killed instantly and took up to 10 minutes to die were unconscious during that time?
There is absolutely no justification for assuming that an unconscious animal taking 10 minuted to die has undergone any suffering at all. The next most probable outcome, after instant death, from an explosive charge in the vicinity of the brain, is unconsciousness. Remaining conscious for even part of that time, let alone right up to the point of death, would be a very distant third.
So how about you give us the whole story, Ann, instead of these sleazy little snippets that seriously mislead?
Ah Mott. Poor little 'man'. Yes, I seriously think only domesticated animals get stuck in bogs. LOL!!! Once again a point gets lost on you Mott. Tsk. But that's ok, we'll keep dredging up orcas killing poor cute seals and dolphins coz that's natural, and a grenade tipped harpoon is...natural too..!!! The whole point of canned hunting escaped you, but you are continuing to pluck at tired strings, and out of tune with what is going on!
Alex! Did he take his combantrin again and you managed to escape? Lucky little worm you.
TTDs have been discussed in pretty reasonable detail previously. But once again Mott says life is cruel and we should be easing animal suffering when it comes to things like canned hunting, but when it comes to whaling - kaboom! Blow 'em out of the water and make sure they die a slow miserable death. Joke? You betcha worm boy.
And according to the organisation , the whalers do try to kill the whales humanely, but rough seas and poor visibily make this difficult. Note , the minke whale is visible partly for about 3 sek, so everyone can imagine how difficult it is to get a clean shot.