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 "My little pony" and the abundance of pre-teen girls you could have in floods of tears with that little soundbite.
When someone posts references to proper scientific journal aticles evidencing their hypothesising I can start to take them seriously, please someone give us just one FACT not newspaper sesationalisation or pressure group propaganda.
I would sincerely like to know the scinetific consensus of fin whale population and what impact the removal of animals would be on the longterm viability of the population.