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Overfishing, killing dolphins and whales - wrong on so many levels

Overfishing dolphins and whales

Dolphin and whale hunting

This is a discussion forum on the topic of over fishing and in particular the hunting of dolphins and whales. Please feel free to join in this discussion and tell us your views on this very controversial subject.



Once a long time ago there were plenty of fish in the sea but more than 40 years of overfishing has taken its tole on fish stocks.

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08-3-2010 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
20-2-2010 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 sona...morenotaenviromentalist
17-2-2010 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 t...moreDiamonds are forever*
17-2-2010 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 t...moreDiamonds are forever*
20-1-2010 it is horrible to kill dolphins and whales because there is a limited supply, so to speak. whales especially are endangered. pigs and cows are farm raised to be eaten, and are easy to breed. sharks are also ki11ed and eaten too, but are not thought of as cute dolphins and whales.jd
11-1-2010 its sad; ignorance does not rid us of our dependence on earth, the problem is not the meat or food itself- its over consumption, which will inevitably lead to depletion; leading to our own decline enjoy:)orion
10-1-2010 G.lad, you do have a point there. It does have to be said that dolphins are not afraid of humans, perhaps that is their downfall sometimes. They are usually very interested in people and have quite often saved humans from shark attacks etc.. As to the doner kebab, I've never eaten one in thi...moregrumpyoldwoman
09-1-2010 GOW, without falling out, if dolphins were nearly as intelligent as humans, how come they keep getting caught in boats fishing nets? with their sonar, they should be able to hear the boat engines for miles, Most other wild mammals birds and fish that I know of leg it at the sight or sound of ma...moreGainsborough lad.
09-1-2010 Yes but probably nowhere near as intelligent as dolphins! Dolphins may be almost as intelligent as humans. How about answering the other two questions?grumpyoldwoman
08-1-2010 Pigs are intelligent GOW and we eat them don"t we?Digsy
08-1-2010 Well, icanlol, I've explained why I think it's wrong to eat dolphin; do you disagree about their intelligence? How would you like it if cannibals removed your family from your home and ate them? Would you say it was no worse than if they had eaten a cow or a sheep?grumpyoldwoman
08-1-2010 OK, everyone who has been hating on me is either a holier than thou vegan or a hypocrite. I say that I have no problem with farmed animals, so farmed zebra is fine by my morals. Wild caught fish is seen as ok by most people despite dwindling fish stocks. Why is dolphin seen as particularly wrong wh...moreicanlol



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