stopped the bloody whaling

[Neil]

the moratorium was 40 years ago this month.

the first successful global environmental campaign, kudos to Greenpeace.

 

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, Neil said:

the moratorium was 40 years ago this month.

the first successful global environmental campaign, kudos to Greenpeace.

 

hasn't stopped though has it? Now they do it for "science"

[Neil]

3 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

hasn't stopped though has it? Now they do it for "science"

its much reduced, and the science bit was always in the mix of the argument.

 

next up, nuclear power no thanks.

 

Edited July 14, 2022 by Neil

[Neil]

4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

hasn't stopped though has it? Now they do it for "science"

In 1982 the IWC decided that there should be a pause in commercial whaling on all whale species and populations from the 1985/1986 season onwards.  This pause is often referred to as the commercial whaling moratorium, and it remains in place today.   

[steviewevie]

8 minutes ago, Neil said:

its much reduced, and the science bit was always in the mix of the argument.

 

next up, nuclear power no thanks.

 

that's more tricky now we have to stop using fossil fuels.

[steviewevie]

7 minutes ago, Neil said:

In 1982 the IWC decided that there should be a pause in commercial whaling on all whale species and populations from the 1985/1986 season onwards.  This pause is often referred to as the commercial whaling moratorium, and it remains in place today.   

[Neil]

Just now, steviewevie said:

it would have been much more without the moratorium.

[Crazyfool01]

Makes me blubber seeing these die 

[Ayrshire Chris]

Killer whales recently spotted in the firth  of Clyde  maybe they feel safer here. 

 

[steviewevie]

1 minute ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

Killer whales recently spotted in the firth  of Clyde  maybe they feel safer here. 

 

wow...amazing. Is that normal?!

[Rufus Gwertigan]

8 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

wow...amazing. Is that normal?!

They are relatively common in the West and North of Scotland you can even see them in the south coast of England

[Ayrshire Chris]

38 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

wow...amazing. Is that normal?!

Yes, we also see basking sharks quite often. There’s currently a pod of porpoises patrolling the area, see them most evenings. I assume there’s a lot of mackerel out there. 

[Rufus Gwertigan]

As a kid my dad was a deep sea fisherman out of Hull and during the summer I used 2 to spend a few months on the trawler with him. I'll never forget the year because it was the year of the royal wedding so it was 1981 and I was 13. We were in the North sea and had engine trouble and the engineer had shut the engines down for a while. After few hours we started hearing and feeling a thud on the side of the trawler and we all rushed on deck to see what was happenin. Turns out it was a bloody great big humpback whale banging itself against the side of the trawler.

This went on for hours until the engines got fixed and we got underway I have seen some amazing things in my life but not a lot can match that. To think at the time the norwegians and icelandics was still hunting these beautiful beasts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 15, 2022 by Rufus Gwertigan

[Avalon_Fields]

5 hours ago, Rufus Gwertigan said:

As a kid my dad was a deep sea fisherman out of Hull and during the summer I used 2 to spend a few months on the trawler with him. I'll never forget the year because it was the year of the royal wedding so it was 1981 and I was 13. We were in the North sea and had engine trouble and the engineer had shut the engines down for a while. After few hours we started hearing and feeling a thud on the side of the trawler and we all rushed on deck to see what was happenin. Turns out it was a bloody great big humpback whale banging itself against the side of the trawler.

This went on for hours until the engines got fixed and we got underway I have seen some amazing things in my life but not a lot can match that. To think at the time the norwegians and icelandics was still hunting these beautiful beasts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just to say, my wife’s grandfather’s both spent their lives on trawlers out of Hull, it was a hard existence but so much part of the community back then. 

[Avalon_Fields]

I’ve been lucky to be at close quarters to the returning Southern Right Whales in South Africa, beautiful creatures. But it still upsets me to know they’re named Right was because they were placid and easy to kill.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

18 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Just to say, my wife’s grandfather’s both spent their lives on trawlers out of Hull, it was a hard existence but so much part of the community back then. 

Just go off topic when I was 16 I join the navy but was discharged due to eyesight problems. After couple of weeks of coming home ma I went down on the docks to get a job and no one would take me I thought on my referees and people had work with would want me to work with them again but they all said no I spent a day walking up and down the docks just looking for a boat that would to me no one did what I didn't know is that my dad another people adore it been in contact with companies saying don't hire him. That was nothing to do with qualifications or who you knew although no at the end it was a family thing everyone was saving me from the breakdown of fishing industry

It would just been niced to be asked

 

 

 

[Rufus Gwertigan]

Christ o am pissed

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, Rufus Gwertigan said:

Just go off topic when I was 16 I join the navy but was discharged due to eyesight problems. After couple of weeks of coming home ma I went down on the docks to get a job and no one would take me I thought on my referees and people had work with would want me to work with them again but they all said no I spent a day walking up and down the docks just looking for a boat that would to me no one did what I didn't know is that my dad another people adore it been in contact with companies saying don't hire him. That was nothing to do with qualifications or who you knew although no at the end it was a family thing everyone was saving me from the breakdown of fishing industry

It would just been niced to be asked

 

 

 

Believe me, I know exactly how you feel. Not the same set of circumstances, admittedly, but having your life 'controlled' by another(s) is a wicked thing for them to have done. Well, that's the way that I perceive it. My own father and mother left their home country (Ireland), and did what they wanted. They were / are (my dad's dead) very, very puritanical too. And they were avaricious for money, status etc. They were / are successful in both territories. Well, they were, if only me and one of my other brothers would do as they say. To my mind's eye that really is greedy - having your own life and wanting governance over another's too. 

I told my four brothers that if I get to heaven (if there ever was such a place) that if my dad was there, I would walk up and nut him. That's how bitter I am.