Japanese Whale Market has Collapsed

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This informs us that the whalingindustry is literally dying with a whimper leaving behind a band of strandedrent seekers in its wake.
At least Canada’s sealhunt has some semblance of good husbandry associated with it.  The whale population happens to be in theearly days of a long term recovery cycle that is going to take a couple ofcenturies.  It is time to forget we knowhow to hunt them.
In fact is the whole global wildfishery is now well on the way to been totally abandoned.  The primary solutions are already in placeand are been deployed as fast as possible. There is ample reason that we now have full fish counters everywhere andno lack of sushi.
The big problems have been solved and we are now getting great at producing domestic fish products.  Even a linear extension of the trend line is overwhelmingand the trend line is hardly linear.
This means that the entire wildfishery will be in full recovery mode inside the next twenty years everywhere.


Report: Japanese Whaling 'Dead in the Water' Without Millions inSubsidies
Animal watchdog reveals 'warehouses of whale meat' as demand plummets
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
February 4, 2013 by CommonDreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/04-2
The controversial Japanese whaling industry, which has met fiercecriticism and often combativeoversea confrontations, is "effectively dead in the water"without large government subsidies says a new report by animal watchdog group,the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw).
Breaking the story on the uneaten 'warehouses of whale meat,'the Guardian cites a new report, to be published Tuesday, whichfound that—despite a dramatic drop in whale meat consumption—the Japanesegovernment continues to siphon millions from public tax dollars to keep theindustry afloat.
Whale meat consumption has reportedly fallen to about 1% of its1960s peak, with stockpiles of unsold whale meat topping 5 million kilograms.
According the report, despite this obvious glut, the Japanesegovernment spent at least ¥30bn ($4.8bn) on whaling between 1987 and 2012,including last year's subsidies of ¥2.28bn ($366m) which were siphoned off frommoney budgeted for reconstruction from the 2011 tsunami.
"With growing wealth and modernization, the people of Japan have losttheir yen for whale meat," the report says. "Yet fisheries officialsand other government figures continue to siphon off millions of taxpayer yen toprop up an industry that is effectively dead in the water."
An unnamed Japanese anti-whaling activist and volunteer with oceanconservationist group Sea Shepard says that, despite the significant drop in popularity,Japanese whaling continues primarily because of "greed and bureaucracy,and also because the Japanese, like any country, don't like being told what todo by other countries."[ Get over it already.  The cheapest way out is always to say you arewrong and leave.]
"The fisheries agency is using international opposition to whalingto build domestic support,"said Patrick Ramage, the director of Ifaw's global whale program. "But I don't think that argument is selling any better than all that whale meat now sitting in warehouses."