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Can I thank all contributors so far to this forum. I do feel that we have conducted healthy debate around this topic and I for one am taking something positive form the ideas of my fellow board members. Neil

Agreed, unsubsidised commercial whaling is not viable in Japan. I am not sure commercial reasons are alone justification for anything. You could argue that drug dealing has commercial justification. Sailing boats and spears again, oh dear. Incidentally at one point the UK was the biggest...

You will read in places that in one small education area, whale meat was being tested as a school meal for children and that it is sold as dog food. Does this sound like a high priced luxury item that the Japanese rich are climbing over themselves to find and snap up, of course not. Demand is so...

I wish to make something clear, I do wish that whaling would cease worldwide. I think that if a total ban were in place for 10 to 20 years then people would learn to live without whale product and come the end of the moratorium there would not be a market left for whale product. It is the biased...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VGB-4M57H1V-1&_user=128556&_coverDate=10%2F20%2F2006&_alid=487318694&_rdoc=19&_fmt=summary&_orig=search&_cdi=6034&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000010578&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=128556&md5=ebbb16d692ae42730b1f669a8860e09f...

http://www.cresli.org/cresli/cetacean/finwhale.html this article suggest a dramtic increase in fin whale population in the last 10 years.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V6N-4JT838T-6&_user=10&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2006&_alid=487312030&_rdoc=4&_fmt=summary&_orig=search&_cdi=5819&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=293d08493a80626cfd5dffcbef8a1868 Here is...

Who is Randy Cunningham and what does he have to do with whaling or the Japanese government?

Exactly my point in a previous thread. Who was responsible for the 19th century whaling on a massive scale? There are still no hard facts here concerning viability of removing 50 whales from the current fin whale population all you have shown me is an article that says "there may have been 1.5...

There are some seriously High Horses around this thread I think. Read the BBC interview in full, virtually no-one in Japan eats whale. And talking of horses more people eat that, and where are they getting all this horse from, USA, 300,000 animals from Texas alone last year. Just think of poor...

It appears to me that DennisS makes reasoned statements concerning this thread. Do you think you need to do a little bit of INDEPTH rersearch yourself into the actions of the "pressure group" you so are so determined to support Zingtea?

Dear H2Andy, I just love your explanation for your 1000 fold statement in a previous message. It seems that just because you have invented some "fact" about Washington lobbyists you can apply this to every western government around the world, amazing! Where is your evidence? Don't just give...

Hi, We are travelling to Antigua for a week before Christmas. We are planning to take some kit and do a couple of days diving. We have car rental so wonder whether it is possible just to pick up some tanks and weights somewhere and go do our own thing? Sort of Bonaire type diving. Does anyone...

I have been looking on web pages about the history of Whaling to see if I can clarify my opinion with some "facts". I found that the US had by far the largest fleet employing 70,000 people and during its heyday when whale oil was a part of daily life for lighting it is conservatively...

If you check the net there are many excellent flight deals to Egypt at the moment. This is sad because it must be reflecting the earlier terror activity but could be beneficial to us who would still travel to Egypt for liveaboard diving. I am looking for a trustworthy liveaboard agent in Egypt...

Hi Adam, Got myself and my partner booked on Undersea Explorer mid April. Would be pleased to here about your trip. Neil

Tiddly winks. Reason why players mostly use their hands and call it football?

Hi Japan-diver, Thanks for the info, especially the kit info, I can bring a lite version and make it arond 11kg's including full foots. Do you have any dive operation contacts? would it be worth 4 or 5 days? Whats the chances with Hammers at this time? Are we gauranteed a try at the ruins? I...

Hi, I get a very Zen feeling just posting in this forum. I am travelling to Japan in April. I am meeting with a diving friend in Tokyo and we intend to spend up to one week diving in South Western Okinawa islands. Because Mika is Japanese we will not have a language problem. We are both...

Hi, thanks for all the information. Ken was your price including diving or did you have to pay additional for this? My partner, Mika is Japanese and the problem I have with booking through a Japanese tour operator is they cannot confirm the price. I know this has something to do with...