Abstract:
It has become commonly accepted in the West that the fight against Japanese scientific whaling is an honorable cause – a battle fought in fear of the extinction of a much-loved species. However, the West, in its staunch defence of the whale, refuses to acknowledge the possible viability of sustainable commercial whaling – a passionate position that has spawned the vehement condemnation of Japan’s whaling ambitions and accusations that scientific whaling research is a fraud.
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