What is wrong with Iceland's whaling anyway?

How much does Greenpeace receive in "anti-whaling" donations each year? Is this why you keep up the fight to "save the whale"?

My opinion: Iceland's reasons for scientific whaling are FUBAR and if we can stop Iceland from whaling we are closer to protecting whales from the scary possibility that commercial whaling will be resumed by Iceland, Norway and Japan in the next few years.

I MYSELF NOR ANYONE THAT I KNOW WILL NEVER VISIT ICELAND NOR GIVE ANY NICE RESPONSE TO PEOPLE PLANNING ON VISITING. SIMPLY PUT WHALING MUST STOP!

I wonder how many of you criticising Iceland's whaling have actually read any of the Icelandic researcher's proposals for the research? It looked pretty good to me - and as for the Japanese scientific whaling, it has received a great deal of praise. Take this from the IWC's scientific committee in 1998 for example: "The [scientific whaling] programme is providing information leading to a substantial improvement in knowledge of stock structure... and contributing useful information on the role of minke whales in the Antarctic ecosystem, particularly with information on feeding and energetics, as well as providing some information relevant to the committee's work on pollution studies and the effect of environmental change on cetaceans."

What the whale populations need is more research, not less. The problem is that groups such as Greenpeace instead prefer to go for cash instead of trying to help progress science.

Hello anon,
The IWC's scientific commitee consists mostly of prowhaling nations scientists,that's why it's no surprise to read statements as you mentioned.

I have read the Icelandic research programme, and I'm not at least impressed, such pompous words without any meaning. What the hell have all those Japanese scientists and Icelandic scientists been doing all these years with the thousands of whales they have been slaughtered in the name of science, and still must do such elementary procedures such as checking stomach contents(I have personally done many autopsies on mammals).

Ann