First of all, I would like to point out my above post because you failed to refute a single point that I made.
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i mean if we open it up to 300 a year.... do you really think that such small populations will be able to make that many babies a year... and then it will be several years before those babies are able to make babies....
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What are you basing this off of? Do you know the population of those species of whales? Do you know their breeding rates? I mean, you could be a marine biologist, but if I recall, you're a university student.
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whales were hunted nearly to extinction in the past...i dont think we should allow more hunting untill their populations have greatly increased... and even then it should still be limited...
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True, whales were greatly thinned in number in the past. That was because of zero regulation on behalf of governments. Now regulations are obviously strict, as the article details. People aren't just going to start hunting whales again like the world used to, it just can't. Too many regulations.
And the hunting has a very specific limit. 300 a year. So it would be limited as you suggest.