Japan might kill world's only white whale

[Rakie]

good idea
sad one tho
it would be best so we could keep it in musems and stuff
if it died at sea
we would never see it again

lol... thats wrong, it should die at sea and live its life, we don't have to see everything. Im all for exploring the ocean but not if we kill things to do it.

Im a realist, and I ****ing hate, HATE, HATE bleeding hearts that cry about everything animal related... But the Japanese have gone too far, for way too long... There have been Japanese whaling ships found in nature reserves hunting whale that are protected, and they knew it... There have been shark ships found with over 300 TONS of shark fins (ONLY FINS) they cut off the fins the throw the fin less shark back in the ocean... Shark fins don's weigh a lot... 300 tons of them is quite a lot of dead sharks.

 

[Fish_are_fishfood]

"Last year Sea Shepherd threatened to ram the Japanese fleet with a ship fitted with a bulldozer-type blade. The group has been branded environmental terrorists by Tokyo."

Haha, thats just amazing...


Although it has stopped, anyone remember the driftnet fishing Japan used to do?

 

[Eupterus]

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Also against whaling. The only exception I see maybe is subsistence hunting in cold climates. Japan doesn't fit that need and therefore does not need to hunt whales.

 

[fshfanatic]

Rakie, I havent read Moby Dick since HS, 20 someodd yrs ago, I thought Ahab never caught Moby Disk, I could be wrong.. Memory is the first thing to go.. LOL

 

[Rakie]

Rakie, I havent read Moby Dick since HS, 20 someodd yrs ago, I thought Ahab never caught Moby Disk, I could be wrong.. Memory is the first thing to go.. LOL

Well, moby dick is a book, fiction. But that book was created from an old story, and that old story was apparently something that happened.

Again im sure it was completely embellished from its first telling to this fictional book Moby Dick.

 

[sandtiger]

Well, moby dick is a book, fiction. But that book was created from an old story, and that old story was apparently something that happened.

Again im sure it was completely embellished from its first telling to this fictional book Moby Dick.

The real story is nothing like the book and IIRC they never went after that whale.

good idea
sad one tho
it would be best so we could keep it in musems and stuff
if it died at sea
we would never see it again

We don't need to see a dead white whale in a museum. We have pictures, videos (I'm sure) and can always go out and see it. That is good enough.

 

[Rakie]

The real story is nothing like the book and IIRC they never went after that whale.

Yeah, I remember it being nothing like the book, but I thought they had gone after it (I have a good memory but not a perfect one)

We don't need to see a dead white whale in a museum. We have pictures, videos (I'm sure) and can always go out and see it. That is good enough.

Exactly.

 

[Onion01]

I dont see a smiley, your kidding right?

oh, my bad. Here you go...
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[Onion01]

Rakie, I havent read Moby Dick since HS, 20 someodd yrs ago, I thought Ahab never caught Moby Disk, I could be wrong.. Memory is the first thing to go.. LOL

my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I think it ended the story being captured by asian poachers, sold to fugupuff, and wound up in Li's collection .

 

[fshfanatic]

Well, moby dick is a book, fiction. But that book was created from an old story, and that old story was apparently something that happened.

Again im sure it was completely embellished from its first telling to this fictional book Moby Dick.

Thats what I thought as well. However a quick google:

Moby-Dick[1] is a novel by Herman Melville. Written in 1851, the story recounts the adventures of its central character, Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab.

Made me go "hmmmm" I thought maybe...