Why is Japan hunting and killing pregnant Humpack Whales for “research” reasons?
Whaling was big industry throughout the world prior to the invention of electricity. For centuries large whales have been hunted for oil, meat, baleen and ambergris (a perfume ingredient from the intestine of sperm whales). The International Whaling Commission introduced a six year moratorium on all commercial whaling in 1986, which has been extended to the present day. For various reasons some exceptions to this moratorium exist; current whaling nations are NORWAY, ICELAND and JAPAN and the aboriginal communities of SIBERIA, ALASKA and northern CANADA.
