Norway seeks tripled whale catch

[gulfcoastliberal]

Norway's Parliament says the country's annual catch of minke whales should go up "considerably" as soon as possible.

The 2004 quota of 670 whales could be almost tripled to about 1,800 animals a year if the government agrees to act.

Norway's fisheries minister said the country also wanted to start scientific research on other whale species, using satellite transmitters to count them.

He said assessing the whales' numbers in this way could be the prelude to hunting some less abundant species.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3753919.stm

Their "scientific research" on other whale species means killing them. This is disgusting. Why the hell are the Norwegians so hell-bent on ensuring whale extinction? Talk about stupid white people!

[sui generis]

1. most of the rest of the world agrees

with the exception of Japan. The most offensive thing about "scientific" whaling is the bold faced in-your-face lie that we are expected to believe it has anything to do with real science. If you want to hunt whales, don't dignify it by giving science a bad name. Anyway, it doesn't matter what lipstick you put on the pig, it's still a pig, and whaling is still one of the most deeply disgusting things that humans do in the environment of the ocean and just plain wrong.

I say Norway should also file to triple their quota of scientific wife beating while they're out trying to insult our intelligence by associating something disgusting with "scientific".

[ladjf]

2. I'm disappointed.

I thought that Norway was more civilized behave so greedily and stupidly. Too bad.

[Piperay]

3. Damn

this makes me ashamed of my Norwegian blood. :argh: