how do hunting and poaching causing whale to be extinct?

Question

who are the people that causes the whale to become extinct

Answer 1

EVERY ONE CAUSES IT.... here is why most places put road and parking lot rain water(along with trany oil,engine oil,etc) streight into rivers that eventually lead to the oceans. factories do the same. many counteries also put garbage into the oceans aswell as radio active wastes (in "safe" concrete blocksin deep deep ocean crevacies. Because all whales are at the top of the ocean food chain they acumulate all the contamination absorbed in lower life forms along the way. This leads to growth defects,diseases and deaths as well as reproductive disorders(wich is a long slow process any how). Yes hunting animals fastewr than they can reproduce causes a population drop. but so does polution,and enviromental changes. (including the high volume of shipping traffic) so even if you live in the middle of the Mojave Dessert if you are typing questions on a computer(shipped from japan),useing electricity(air and water polution), eating an apple(water polution{fertalizersand pesticides},air polution{smoke from traktors and transports},wearing clothes(shipped from over seas)....the list goes on....YOU ARE KILLING WHALES...hunting,(Japan)poaching...(???),and fishing nets are only a small peice of the picture resaulting in the extinktion of whales.

Answer 2

When you look at the hole picture it becomes clear.
The Soviet Union falsified the numbers, they clamed to have harvested 108 whales per year for 25 years.
But in truth harvested 1830 whales per year, accounting for a total 45,767 whales over a 25 years period, that 16.9 times more then what was claimed.
Now that was just one country, what about all the others countries, did they claim the true number, or did they too fudge on the book.
Now multiply that with the whaling countries and in no time you have a species in trouble.

Now with whaling banned, why are there still countries out there still hunting whales and also taking species of whales that are endangered.

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It was revealed in 1994 that the Soviet Union had been systematically underreporting the number of whales it took. For example, from 1948 to 1973, the Soviet Union killed 48,477 Humpback Whales rather than the 2,710 it officially reported to the IWC. On the basis of this new information, the IWC stated that it would have to rewrite its catch figures for the last forty years.

If you wont to learn more just use the link attached.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_hunting

D58

Answer 3

Hunting by Native people never impacted whaling populations when it was performed in the traditional manner, man powered canoes and hand thrown harpoons. The Northwest Indians hunted whales for thousands of years and only took what they could use.

Unrestricted open sea (pelagic) whaling in the late 19th century and early 20th century jepardized the Oceans populations of Whales rapidly. Most nations have agreed to NOT hunt whales at all, except for allowing native peoples to to continue their seasonal hunts. Unfortunately, If I remember this correctly, Japan, Iceland, and Russia all still reserve the right to hunt Whale without regard to International pressure and without quotas. It is very sad to see these extremely intelligent animals hunted for industrial and Meat (Japan mostly) products.

Answer 4

Walter, that's sort of an obvious answer, bud. Is it for homework?

If you have five whales in a room.....and don't ask what they're doing in the room, just accept that they are....and some Japanese guy walks in and shoots one and eats it, how many are left? Seeing as how it will be over a year before that one missing whale is replaced, what happens if that damned Japanese guy comes back again tomorrow?

And today, the stinking Japanese and the almost as equally stinky Norwegians account for 90% of the sea mammal depredation.

Answer 5

Its only an idiot that would blame fishermen for excessive whaling.

Fishermen and whalers are only out there trying to earn a living. No man or woman would risk their lives on the open seas whaling if there wasn't a market for the products they produce.

If the market for whale products didn't exist then people wouldn't harvest whales.

Blame the consumers of whale products.

Miketyson26

Answer 6

like all things humans dont know when to stop.

if the news is to be believed Japan is the worst culprit and use the excuse of research.

Many a species is lost to human greed

Answer 7

The Japanese ! They eat anything that can be caught and eaten without regards for ecology.

Answer 8

they are way overhunted and are threatened by the human race, also global warming is killing them.

Answer 9

fisherman