Regarding the impact that the Danish and Japanese have on these animals, I found this in Wikipedia...
You're still not getting it, so I'll do my best to dissect my previous posts.
- Danish people don't eat whales and dolphins. You'd starve to death in Denmark if those are the only meat you want to eat.
- Faroe Island people don't consider themselves as Danes.
- The population of Faroe Island is <50k, population of China is 26,000+ times more.
- Less than 1,000 pilot whales are harvested by Faroe Islands each year. Between 26-73 million sharks are harvested for their fins each year.
- One wrong doesn't right the other. Diverting attention on a problem by putting spotlight on another doesn't make it disappear, it simply delays it.
"The IUCN lists both species as "Data Deficient" in the Red List of Threatened Species. The North and Baltic Sea subpopulations of long-finned pilot whales have been listed in Appendix II of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS). However, recent data on movements in the northwest and northeast Atlantic suggest that these subpopulations should also be included in Appendix II of CMS.[1] The short-finned pilot whale is listed on Appendix II of CITES.[2]"
What was the point of this entire paragraph being C&Ped? What is appendix two? If anything, it suggests that both species are not endangered and the harvest is sustainable. Just because the term "threatened species" is found in a paragraph, it doesn't make the species being discussed threatened.
C&Ping a section of the text and filtering out the rest in an attempt to support one's POV is never a good practice, especially when it's widely available to everyone.
Surveys of the size of the Northeast Atlantic pilot whale population have been conducted by the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission. These surveys converged on a figure of 778,000 pilot whales. [16] The pilot whale is not registered as an endangered species.
In its Red List of Threatened Species the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists both the Long-finned and Short-finned Pilot Whales with "Data Deficient" status according to its 2008 assessment. In a previous assessment in 1996 the organization listed the species in the "Lower Risk/least concern" category. However, the IUCN also says that with the NAMMCO-estimated population size of 778,000 in the eastern North Atlantic, with approximately 100,000 around the Faroes, Faroese catches of 850 per year are probably sustainable.[17]
According to the American Cetacean Society — pilot whales are not considered endangered. The society cites "There are likely to be almost a million long-finned pilot whales and at least 200,000 short-finned pilot whales worldwide".[18]
The population figure of 778,000 is accepted by the International Whaling Commission's Scientific Committee. Those in favour of whaling, such as the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission in their 1997 and 1999 report on the hunt, claim that this is a conservative estimate[16] , whilst others opposed to the hunt, such as the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society cite data that the figure is over-estimated.[citation needed] This means that the average kill from 1990–1999 of 956 animals each year represents about 0.1% of the population, which is considered sustainable by the IUCN and ACS.
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