{"id":934,"date":"2007-05-26T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=934"},"modified":"2007-05-26T22:04:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T20:04:39","slug":"defending-whales-respecting-the-past-saving-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/defending-whales-respecting-the-past-saving-the-future.html","title":{"rendered":"Defending Whales: Respecting the past, saving the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/photos\/ss\/2173\/im:\/070524\/photos_lf_afp\/30f563ea3c362d098748ba5888cca007;_ylt=AhQJy6i6WTVu9Lr7kbVQh4omWccF\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nagaoka1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/whales\/nagaoka1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/photos\/ss\/2173\/im:\/070524\/photos_lf_afp\/6f313622f8d5a0da451a960e72d67dd6\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nagaoka2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/whales\/nagaoka2.jpg\" width=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Japanese whaler Tomohisa Nagaoka on his whale-watching vessel.  <em>(Click to enlarge.)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/whales.greenpeace.org\/profile\/Page\">Page<\/a> (in Amsterdam)<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[T]his town, Muroto, was thriving because of whaling and was known as a whale town since 400 years ago.  I want to let young people know the culture cultivated by whales in this town should be valued.  My dream is to return their favor.  I would like to do something like that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So says Tomohisa Nagaoka at the end of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whalelove.org\/en\/wagon\/story\/story06\">fascinating interview<\/a> he gave to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whalelove.org\/en\/wagon\/\">Whale Love Wagon<\/a> friends, Yuki and Ivan, back in March 2007.  Nagaoka is a former whaler who became one of Japan&#8217;s first leader of tourist whale-watching expeditions about 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, he talks about how countries competed in a &#8220;Whaling Olympics&#8221;, to see who could kill the most whales.  There weren&#8217;t quotas for individual countries;  rather, the world quota set by the IWC in 1948 was 16,000 Blue Whale Units (which equals 2 fin whales, 6 sei whales, etc.), so blue whales were <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/whales\/whalingstatgraph.jpg\">preferentially hunted<\/a> over other whales, quickly driving them toward near-extinction.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, the AFP published a longer interview with Nagaoka, where he talks more about whaling, both its past and its future, and what he thinks it means to the Japanese.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.greenpeace.org\/whales\/2007\/05\/respecting_the_past_saving_the.html\" title=\"Respecting the past, saving the future\">Continue reading Respecting the past, saving the future&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Japanese whaler Tomohisa Nagaoka on his whale-watching vessel. (Click to enlarge.) Posted by Page (in Amsterdam) &#8220;[T]his town, Muroto, was thriving because of whaling and was known as a whale town since 400 years ago. I want to let young people know the culture cultivated by whales in this town should be valued. My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}