If it were really scientific, then they shouldn't be allowed to sell it, or even give it away.

It should be mandatory that it's put into a waste dump.

Kill off it's economic value, and you kill off the hunting.

The economics are the thing: whale factory ships are VERY single purpose, and would be so much scrap metal if whaling were totally banned.

So the answer is no ships, no new ships would be built, and the slaughter ends.

Anybody have a source for some Mark-48 homing torpedos? Just as a philosophical question, you understand...

A little sugar in the gas tank would probably work.

The AP reporter in Shimonoseki gives this detail about the fleet's send-off:

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Families waved little flags emblazoned with smiling whales and the crew raised a toast with cans of beer, while a brass band played "Popeye the Sailor Man."
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"Popeye the Sailor Man" is of course NOT a traditional Japanese whaling shanty.  And that great American hero, famous for the bold and uncompromising motto, "I yam what I yam," would instruct children to tell the truth, no matter how bitter, and would forcefully urge parents to tell the truth to their children.

And the relevant truth here is, whales do not smile when they are being killed with harpoons.

And we would all do well to remember that this week, making the appropriate re-application of Popeye's sage advice, when we behold all those countless images of smiling turkeys.

Grey Falcon, we are on the same wavelength, regarding what should be done with the whales' remains.

Trying to find something to be hopeful about, however, I also observed in the last "This week in ocean news" thread that not impossibly, by the very fact that the whalers are this time targeting humpback whales, which are internationally well-known and popular, they may provoke a much greater and more serious condemnation from all quarters than before.