I love the show whale wars. It shows the wackiness of the enviromental movement in all its glory. Its even funnier when you do some research on the international whaling commision. The IWC was formed to research whale populations and set quotas to prevent the over fishing. Membership in the IWC is completely voluntary and has no reglulatory power. Whaling is not illeagle in international waters. In the 1970s the IWC was taken over by enviromentalists, they allowed countries to join that had no interest in whaling in order to gain votes to impose a moritorium on whaling and establish a whale sactuary in the arctic ocean. The enviromentalist then got the US goverment to threaten to revoke Japaneise fishing rights in Alaskan waters if they pulled out of the IWC. So Japan used a loophole in the moritorium that allows whales to be taken for research purposes, painted the word research on their ships and continued whaling. So what you get is people chasing after whaling ships like Don Quixote shouting whaling is illeagle, because some commision corrupted by libralism say so, funny stuff.
