[doall]

If there is a clear evidence that killing some species of whales, such as minke whales will cause severe damage to the environment, just create a new international treaty and then the Japanese government will obey the rules. The Japanese government states that they are only killing the species that aren't endangered and also little amount that will not majorly affect the environment.

One thing to notice is that increasing of whales may also affect the environment. They eat large amount of fishes that may affect humans if the number increases. Increasing or decreasing both may affect the environment and the important thing is the balance of them.

[pvaldes]

The old rethoric. Not, this is not the japanese government, is a company, one of several, and the goal of private companies is to maximize the benefits, not to care for the environment. For example killing pregnant animals (Something that is normally forbiden in the laws that regulate hunting in most countries).

Of course all affects the environment.

[doall]

The private companies which are killing the whales are just a proxy of the Japanese government, which are officially allowed by the government. They aren't allowed by the government to hunt as much as they want to maximize the benefits. To build a sustainable business in such regulated field, of course it is important to obey the laws and also care for the environment.

If the killings of 122 pregnant whales severely affect the environment and if there is a clear evidence to support such claim, the company should stop killing them. But if the company is obeying the laws and it's just an emotional thing, I consider it some other people's business.

[pvaldes]

Except that this species is not a property of the government of Japan, neither lives only in Japanese waters, nor are caught (only) in Japanese coast. So the "not your bussiness" claim is incorrect here.

[doall]

I stated a precondition, "if the company is obeying the laws and it's just an emotional thing". So if that precondition is not true as you might consider, then your claim 'So the "not your business" claim is incorrect here' is incorrect.

[pvaldes]

Not. Your precondition was not that. It was more like "If the company is obeying the japanese government" or the "japanese law" then is fine for Japanese to hunt this whales

in Antarctic waters

But is more complicated than that. Maybe you don't know that In 1994 the IWC (International Whaling Commission) created the SOWS (Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary). The countries in the IWC decided to forbid commercial whaling in those waters. Those are the summer feeding fields needed for a big percentage of the extant populations of big cetaceans to survive. Whales need to feed almost continuously without being disturbed in summer because they will fast later for several months when breeding. A zero catch quota for minke whales was stablished, only allowing to kill a small number for scientific purposes.

On March 2014 the International Court of Justice agreed with Australia that the number of Japanese scientific research publications were not proportionate to the number of animals killed (and sold as meat in the japanese market)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ocean_Whale_Sanctuary

"The research conducted in the Antarctic over the last two decades under Article VIII of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling has involved the killing of nearly 10000 minke whales and 13 fin whales. The majority of the IWC's Scientific Committee, and the Commission itself, have repeatedly said that this "scientific whaling" has contributed little or nothing either to information needed for proper management of any renewed whaling under Article V of the ICRW or to better scientific knowledge about whales in general. In particular, reviews carried out by the Scientific Committee have shown unequivocally that the JARPA (Japanese Whale Research Program under special permit in the Antarctic) programme has failed to attain any of its originally stated objectives"

Source: https://www.asoc.org/advocacy/antarctic-wildlife-conservatio...

[doall]

>Not. Your precondition was not that. It was more like "If the company is obeying the japanese government" or the "japanese law" then is fine for Japanese to hunt this whales

Again false. The precondition of the comment you said incorrect was never like that. Next time you post any comments, please read out loud and be more careful :(