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http://marinelife.about.com/od/conservation/p/whaling.htm
 * TOPIC: WHALING**
 * Thesis Statament: Although whaling is mainly used for scientific purposes, it is right now being heavyly abused and must be stopped. Japan cathes about 1000 whales a year, of that over 150 TONS of whale meat is sold to the public. Although whaling can be a sustainable practice, it can not continue in this fashion, the population of EVERY whale that is being hunted in on the fall and if we contuinue to hunt like this there will be no more whales left for our children.**
 * 1) Japan catches several hundred whales each year
 * 2) Japan has permission to conduct whaling as “scientific research” under a permit
 * 3) The Japenease catch mostly non-endangered whales to do research
 * 4) types of whaling are Aboriginal subsistence whaling, Scientific permit whaling, and Objection
 * 5) Aboriginal subsistence whaling allows for whaling where it has traditionally been a part of their culture.
 * 6) Examples: Greenland (fin and minke whales),Russia(gray and bowhead whales),St. Vincent and The Grenadines(humpback whales) and the USA(bowhead and gray whales hunted inAlaska).
 * 7) Scientific permit whaling is were people can whale with a permit to hunt whales for scientific purposes.
 * 8) Objection is when the moratorium was put in place, countries could lodge an objection and continue to hunt whales
 * 9) Many countries have historically and culturally depended on whales, but many species were hunted to near extinction
 * 10) Some of these same countries have developed booming tourist industries around their marine environment, allowing them to benefit from whales without killing them.
 * 11) Oil was the main product from whales
 * 12) When a whale was killed, it was towed to the ship and its blubber would be peeled and cut from its carcass in a process known as “flensing.”
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The blubber was minced into chunks and boiled in large vats on board the whaling ship, producing oil.
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The oil taken from whale blubber was packaged in casks and transported back to the whaling ship’s home port
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From the ports it would be sold and transported across the country and would find its way into a huge variety of products.
 * 16) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Was also used to manufacture soaps, paint, and varnish.
 * 17) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A peculiar oil found in the head of the sperm whale, spermaceti, was highly prized.
 * 18) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was and was commonly used in making candles.
 * 19) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Candles made of spermaceti were considered the best in the world, producing a bright clear flame without an excess of smoke.
 * 20) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The "bone" of the whale which was most commonly used wasn’t technically a bone, it was baleen, a hard material arrayed in large plates in the mouths of some species of whales.
 * 21) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The purpose of the baleen is to act as a sieve, catching tiny organisms in sea water, which the whale consumes as food.
 * 22) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Perhaps the most common use of whalebone was in the manufacture of corsets.
 * 23) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whalebone was also used for collar stays, buggy whips, and toys.
 * 24) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Its flexibility even caused it to be used as the springs in early typewriters.
 * 25) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teeth of other whales, such as the sperm whale, would be used as ivory in such products as chess pieces, piano keys, or the handles of walking sticks.
 * 26) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is tasked with governing the conduct of whaling throughout the world.
 * 27) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The IWC is to complete protection of certain cetacean species
 * 28) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The IWC also sets limits on the numbers and size of whales which may be killed
 * 29) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They also prohibit the capture of suckling calves and female whales accompanied by calves
 * 30) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Is also in charge of coordinating whale research funding and publishing results of scientific study

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">JJF <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">__[]__
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">in 1984Japanharvested 3,908 whales, mostly Minke, Bryde’s and sperm whale
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Pelly Agreement made by theU.S.in 1967 restricts "importation of fishery or wildlife products from countries which violate international fishery or endangered or threatened species programs."
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">in 2001, 1803 TONS of whale meat was sold to the public
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Whale meat is considered a delicacy
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Whaling TO AN EXTENT can be a sustainably source of food and research
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The whales used for scientific research is used to find out about the under water ecosystem
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">They hunt whales also to find out about whale populations
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">The Japanese can learn a lot about climate change due to the ways whales adapt
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">There is non-lethal ways to study whale and if this were practiced more it could save thousands of whales
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Although each whale provides more meat then each fish, fish breed much faster and are a much more sustainable source of food

JJF <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">__[]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">1. Japan took a total of 877 whales in the 2007-08 season2.<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Since the moratorium in 1986, Japan has taken over 8600 whales in total3. The 2005/06 season was the first time Japan had taken fin whales, an endangered species.4. The fin whale is estimated to only have about 5000 left5. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Norway broke the moratorium in 1993 and resumed commercial whaling. Since then they have taken over 6,8796. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">In 2006 Iceland took 7 of the endangered fin whale7.Whales are not a renewable food source, whales like the highly endangered north atlantic right whale have showed almost no sign of recovering after 15 years8. Iceland took 30% more minke whales then years past

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">8. Places whare whaling is used for "Scientific puposes"is also where it is part of their original diet
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Whale numbers have dropped 90% in many species
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">the number of **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Western Pacific grey whales left is under 100 **
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Most species of whales are still recovering from the whaling hayday in the early nineteen hundreds **
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">There are NO humane ways to kill a whale, they usually use explosive harpoons **
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">it takes hours to kill a whale **
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Many countries believe whaling will bring more tourism **
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Whale watching if done correctly is a safe alternative to whaling

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">1. it cost $60 million of Japanese taxpayers money to fund the corrupt whaling industry2. Most Japanese citizens don't approve that their money is going in the direction of whaling3. Recently Japan has been put on trial but there's still a long way to go4. In 2008, millions of pounds of whate meat was found and ready for distribution5. the reason eating whale meat is legal is because the IWC doesn't want any part of thew hale to go to waste6. Recent DNA evidence shows that the impact of commercial whaling may be even worse than previously thought7. Many whales are at less than 10% of their original abundance <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">8<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">. Nowadays, organizations such as Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherdwhcih are saving whales all over the world, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">9. Last year the Sea Shepherd saved over 100 whales.1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">10. Whaling has hurt Iceland's fourism industry because tourists from around the world are boycotting Iceland. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">11. The tsunami in Japan affected whales and the whaling industry. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 3px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">on trial

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">1. Although many whales are classified as endangered, Iceland has ramped up its commercial whaling activites. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">2. Iceland exports more than 880 tons for whale meat, whale blubber and oil in 2010 alone. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">3. The 880 tons of whale products that Iceland exports to Japan, Norway and the Faroe Islands this year have been valued at $11million. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">4. President Bush at the time declined to impose trade sanctions. Given Iceland's recent whaling activity, the Obama administration is now “evaluating potential responses." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">5. Taryn Kiekow, staff attorney for the U.S.-based Nateral Resouce Defence Council, was also quoted:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">“Now is the time for the U.S. to take robust measures against Iceland for its continued defiance of international law,” said Kiekow.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">﻿ “Iceland’s commercial whaling policy is considered archaic and cruel by the rest of the world and we ask the U.S. to impose trade sanctions against it.”

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ 1. Whale populations are at risk because of hunting, ship strikes, by-catch, entanglements, marine pollution, underwater noise and climate change. 2. With all these threats, there is no place in the world for commercial whaling. 3. The health of the oceans are highly affected by the amount of whales that inhabit it.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ 1. In 2011, the Norwegian government set a quota of 1,286 minke whales for the hunting season which lasts from April to August.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ 1. Iceland and Norway are the only countries to hunt commercially. Other countries are bound by a 20 year moratorium.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ 1. Compared to 2008, 10 times as much whale meat were exported from Iceland last year 2. Iceland does not use hardly any of the whales killed, Most of it is exported to Japan.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">__[]__ 1. Hunting whales begain in 6000 BC. 2. Organized fleets hunted whales beginning in the 17th century. 3. Harvesting' whales, began in the 20th century. 4. The oldest method for whaling was using boats to make noise to drive whales to shore. 5. They would use an object called a drogue, such as a wooden drum or inflated sealskin which they tied to an arrow or harpoon. 6. The right whale was popular prey in the 18th and 19th centuries because they swam slowly and their bodies floated. 7. During the 11th century, they found that these whales were very profitable to slaughter once they had beached. 8. They realised the blubber could be used for lighting fuel and the meat could be eaten. 9. These strandings became advantageous, but they eventually started driving them out the water. Basque whaling continued until the start of the Seven Years War in 1756. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">10. This became a highly organised business by the 12th century. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">11. They built stone watchtowers and once a whale was sighted, an alarm was sounded and as many as 20 villages would head out after it. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">12. They would share the rewards, except for the tongue, which was given to the church as a favoured delicacy. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">13. Soon the British and Dutch began whaling. For many years they used Basques as expert whalers on their ships.

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 * 1) The blue whale in antarica has less than 1% of their oranginal abundance
 * 2) even after 40 years of complete protection
 * 3) Some population of whales are recovering and some are not.
 * 4) only one population, the east pacific gray whale is thought to recovered
 * 5) But the closly relative west pacific gray whale is the most endangered in the world
 * 6) The west pacific grey whale is hovering over the enge of extinction with only 100 remaining
 * 7) Resent DNA evidents shows that commercial whaling may be even worst than previous thought
 * 8) most estimated of historic whale population size has been extrapolated from old whaling figures
 * 9) In 2003 Pulumbi and his colleagues use DNA samples to estimate that the humpback whale <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">whale could have number 1.5 million prior to commercial whaling in the 1800s
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">the number decreases the figure of 100,000 previous accepted by the IWC based on the 1900s whaling records. Humpbacks whales currently number 20,000
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">whaling is no longer the only threat to whales <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">The oceans, or rather, human impacts on the oceans, have changed dramatically over the half-century since whales have been protected.
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Known environmental threats to whales include global warming, pollution, overfishing, ozone depletion, noise such as sonar weaponry, and ship strikes
 * 13) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Industrial fishing threatens the food supply of whales and also puts whales at risk of entanglement in fishing gear.
 * 14) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Despite these accumulating threats, an increasing number of nations in the International Whaling Commission are voting for an immediate resumption of commercial whaling.
 * 15) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Some new and enthusiastic members of the IWC include Benin, Gabon, Tuvalu and Nauru
 * 16) . it cost $60 million of Japanese taxpayers money to fund the corrupt whaling industry
 * 17) . Most Japanese citizens don't approve that their money is going in the direction of whaling
 * 18) Recently Japan has been put on trial but there's still a long way to go
 * 19) In 2008, millions of pounds of whate meat was found and ready for distribution
 * 20) the reason eating whale meat is legal is because the IWC doesn't want any part of thew hale to go to waste
 * 21) Recent DNA evidence shows that the impact of commercial whaling may be even worse than previously thought
 * 22) Many whales are at less than 10% of their original abundance
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> Nowadays, organizations such as Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherdwhcih are saving whales all over the world, \
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;"> Last year the Sea Shepherd saved over 100 whales.1
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;"> Whaling has hurt Iceland's fourism industry because tourists from around the world are boycotting Iceland.
 * 26) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 90%;">The tsunami in Japan affected whales and the whaling industry.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1. Whales can suffer up to 1 one hour before they succumb to the harpoons and rifles of the hunters. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 2. We know that the whales are killed by the hunters. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9.33333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 3. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: baseline;">﻿ What we don’t know is the behavior, intelligence, and social groups under the waves. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 4. WSPA believes that gaining an insight into the lives of the whales is essential in understanding the full impact of the hunts on these whales. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">IS IT BANNED? ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 5. Commercial whaling has been banned for more than twenty years. Still some countries, such as Iceland,Norway, and Japan continue to hunt whale. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9.33333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 6. This means that around 2,500 whales are still killed every year in cruel and unnecessary hunts that cause pain and distress. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9.33333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 7. The whale’s meat is then sold commercially for human consumption. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WHALE WELFARE ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WSPA //is working to stop all commercial and scientific whaling by: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9.33333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 8. Using diplomacy and public support to raise whale welfare up the agenda of the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9.33333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 9. Using diplomacy and public support to raise whale welfare up the agenda of the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 10. Supporting and encouraging member societies in both pro- and anti-whaling countries in their campaigns against whaling on welfare grounds. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 11. Producing reports to back up our welfare claims and perspective with good science. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 9.33333px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 12. Leading the __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Whalewatch __ network – a group of NGOs united by an opposition to whaling on welfare grounds. By sharing information and working together we are better able to promote the importance of whale welfare across the globe <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 13. Asking for help from you. Your support has helped WSPA prove to whaling nations and the IWC that whale welfare is important to the public.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">People need to convince more countries to speak out against this inherently cruel pursuit. // **