Posted by Page (in Seattle)
 Minke whale. (Click to enlarge. Photo credit: NOAA.) |
For many years, we’ve known that one of the major threats to the endangered near-threatened minke whales is bycatch, where the whales are caught in nets meant for other fishing purposes. In fact, back in 2005, Greenpeace bloggers in South Korea witnessed the butchering of a young minke whale caught as bycatch (photos, story).
In South Korea, it’s legal to sell whale meat from whales caught as bycatch. One minke whale can be worth as much as $100,000, so you can imagine what the fishing industry is suspected of doing.
That’s right. Deliberately netting minke whales.
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