02-September-2010

Overfishing dolphins and whales

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Dolphins and whales on the verge of extinction, that’s what I think we are looking at here if things carry on as they are. Over fishing, particularly that of dolphins and whales does need to addressed before it is too late.

It's a beautiful sight, a clean clear blue sea teaming with fish and wildlife there for everyone to enjoy and benefit from. It is just a shame that it wont be that way for much longer and the legacy that we will leave our children is a world of polluted seas and fish, whales and dolphins hunted almost to extinction. It makes feel sad, and extremely angry when I think of the fishing, or rather overfishing practices of countries such as Japan where there is no regard for world fish stocks. Let's not forget Europe, where overfishing is also common, and we should know better!

Around 20,000 dolphins are killed off the coast of Japan every year and it is widely regarded in the small fishing towns as a great honour to be able to hunt dolphins and whales. Despite enormous criticism from environmentalists and governments the slaughter continues and the meat from whales and dolphins fetch a high price on the local markets, and is much more profitable and prized than either tuna or regular fish.

20,000 Dolphins killed every year

It's probably a bit radical to actually work, but imagine if we could all boycott buying Japanese products and force them to take notice of the rest of the world and how we all feel. Okay, there might be a problem or two here because we all need memory chips in our computers and we buy many of Japanese cars and motorcycles each year.

A recent documentary shown on BBC Television 9th November 2004 highlights the current problems of dolphin hunting. Take a look at this article as it may be of interest to some of you who actually care.

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For your information it is not fake, and this actually happens in the world, for no other reason than entertainment.

Why are you saying that I am a bad person for showing this to an animal loving community, to bring this to your attention.

Also on the real purpose of linking it, a lot of worse stuff happens in the world than dolphin hunting, the efforts of the animal lovers should be focused on this atrocity, not RELATIVELY harmless hunting. Hunting dolphin has a purpose, to acquire food, these cats are ki11ed for entertainment.

ZOMGZ!!! 16-Aug-2010 20:43

If you like animals then DON'T watch this. It is a fake video of kittens being used as live bait by game fishermen. It is fake but none the less the kittens are soaking wet, shivering and frightened.

The video is used to draw people in and then sell them stuff. Don't give them the satisfaction of another hit. I wish I hadn't but I thought it was genuinely something pleasant for animal lovers.

ZOMGZ!!! Last time I saw or smelt something like you I was scraping it off my shoe.

The moderators should remove the link unless they want to be known as purveyors of animal p. orn.

anon 19-Jul-2010 10:55

If you like animals, check this out

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=431_1232680237

ZOMGZ!!! 18-Jul-2010 23:51

A cod, a tuna, a whale, a dolphin, a frog, a dog, a cat, a cow, a sheep, a pig...what's the difference? Everyone has to eat. These creatures all eat too.

hungry 29-May-2010 16:27

hey people! you neeeeeeed to listen! ok, japanieze people are doing this and they dont know. piut this into their minds:
they need to watch the cove.

phew. sorry!

concerned citecen of japan. 29-May-2010 15:49

We need to stop this. Now. This Crap is going to carry on forever if we don't stop it!

Athena 29-May-2010 15:41

P.s if you want to get annoyed with japanese people, check this out

www.japanesebugfights.com

I personally find it awesome

icanlol 21-May-2010 16:14

man I wish japaniese people would stop cause that is just hartbreaking.plus dolphins are cute so I dont see why they would do that.

nannie neen 24-Mar-2010 22:26

poor dolphins. imagine if 20,000 people died each year, just in japan, because dolphins ki11ed them. would that change their mind? think how many humans there are compared to one species of dolphin.

tryingtohelp 08-Mar-2010 18:56

Okay you don't get it. Dolphins are intelligent and if you were actually reading more articles about thisttopis. Then you would understand that the fishermen use this thing called drive fishing.So what drive fishing does is it disrupts a dolphins sonar. Obviously if you disrupt a dolphins sonar it wouldn't know what to do but swim to shore, but at shore the japanese have set nets to capture the dolphins who tried to swim away. Maybe for all of those people who think that dolphins are smart should read up about his so more. And please enjoy what I have told you. Thank you.

notaenviromentalist 20-Feb-2010 20:58

What I really mean is that how we are treating the world today and how our numbers are increasing rapidly, we take over the resources and we get greedy without caring. If we continue to do horrible things to the planet there will be no future, Also we are cutting down trees for our use.85% of our trees have disappeared because of us and this is causing twice as much deforestation,global warming, erosions and landslides. If you think Im lying think about why don't you ever see this stuff on the news? Its simple, if we found out that our trees are getting destroyed by clearcutting them(means going in the forest and cut down random trees without thinking and destroying the animals homes) then businesses wouldn't get $. You might not care but by what we are doing, we are killing the planet and ourselves.

Diamonds are forever* 17-Feb-2010 23:51

This is a shame that we are what we are doing to this beautiful world. We are just destroying it carelessly without a feeling in our souls saying what we are doing is wrong. People don't know this because they are blinded by how much money they will recieve. They don't care at all because they think they will be happy forever. I have something to say though, by how we are treating the world, there will be forever. The Earth is taking care of us while we are destroying it. Why ca't we do the same for the Earth? There should be a law about overfishing and overharvesting. They are not only hurtin the planet, they are also hurting themselves and their loved ones if they know it or not.

Diamonds are forever* 17-Feb-2010 02:26

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