Endangered Whales

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be as painful to whales ears as a truck on a highway is to human’s ears.
The decimation of great whales has been going on for centuries, one species after another hunted to levels so low that it is no longer profitable to hunt them. As early as the eighteenth century the Basques of northern Spain hunted the Atlantic Right Whale for meat and whalebone. It was so named by English whalers because it was "right" for their purpose, easy to kill, peaceful and slow moving, feeding in shallow coastal water on plankton and krill, which is strained through its baleen plates. The Atlantic Right Whale was eliminated from the European coastal feeding areas by 1700, and whalers began pursuing it as far west as Newfoundland. The killing of this species continued into the 1900’s, until 1910, when there were no more to be found. After seven hundred years of persecution, it’s no wonder why they never recovered their numbers.
The Japanese and Russian dominated all pelagic whaling from the ...

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