Comments on: Ady Gil 2 May Cost $5 Million To Build

By: Jimmy Armoire

Jimmy Armoire — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:51:07 +0000

Just finished up the recent season of Whale Wars and the coverage of Mr. Bethune’s captivity. I am glad to see he is bringing the Ady Gil back.

By: klm

klm — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:08:47 +0000

In watching the videos available it looks like the Japanese vessel turned to deliberately come very close to the Ady Gil. Like he was playing chicken but miscalculated distance. In the Japanese video it looks as if the wake of the Ady Gil gets bigger almost as if the chief engineer throttled up to make the boat get closer to the Shonan Maru 2 as it was passing by so I’m not so sure either party is innocent here. I also don’t like that the sea shepards edited their video footage but the Japanese did not. Those guys spend millions to stop whaling and most of their time seems to be spent trying to find the whaling fleet and from what I have seen of the show not much “stopping” is actually getting done. Lots of talk about stopping this atrocity but not much actuality. In the end I have to wonder if the Ady needed to be sunk to collect insurance money and get its captain out of debt. I am sure to get flack for this but I am a realist. My opinion is get out of there and try and spend the money to revise the law that seems to be outdated. Collecting whales for “RESEARCH” is total BS.

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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:14:19 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:17:10 +0000

My question is why did Pete Bethune park the boat right in front of the harpoon ship? So it’s his fault for it getting damaged, he could of moved out of the way the boat goes 50 knots.

By: Blue Devil

Blue Devil — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:50:14 +0000

Replace cows and chickens with another food? Ddpalmer you are in fact ignorant, those animals are raised to be eaten, I dont see a whale farm anywhere raising whales for the japanese people to chow down on. Instead lets further reduce an already depleted species of animal for a select few so they can have a nice apetizer. Good thing I’m not rich, I’d buy an old Russian Destroyer, arm it, gather a crew, sink every freakin whaling vessel I came across, then fund a salvage expedition to pump all the fuel out of the trashed hulks and we all can have a nice day, and watch ddpalmers jaw drag on the floor

By: Compassionate

Compassionate — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:38:03 +0000

You’ll never make headway (no pun intended) with brainwashed people.

It’s nice that one of their own is facing three years prison time for their illegal activities; there will be more incarcerations.

By: billy jean is my lover

billy jean is my lover — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:56:04 +0000

More diatribe from ddpalmer.

The whole ‘special permits’ is bogus, and the IWC members know this. Most of them are against the whaling. They know it is unnecessary and not science at all. A huge farce and for what? Sashimi for <1% of population? Selfish national pride hard at work coming at a huge cost to Japans image.

By: agent orange

agent orange — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:51:02 +0000

“cockroaches of the sea” is the commments from a Japanese Foreign minister regarding Minke whales. Look at the sort of psyche these poachers have!

By: ddpalmer

ddpalmer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:32:12 +0000

So, Dr Nicky Grandy, Secretary to the Commission, International Whaling Commission agrees with the fact that Japans whaling activities are perectly legal.

Has anyone told Paul Watson and the SSCS? Now they can start saving the tuna from the Australians. Oops, I mean they can travel over 10,000 miles wasting time and fuel and adding all that CO2 to the atmosphere to start saving the Tuna from the Europeans.

By: Gavin MacQueen

Gavin MacQueen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:10:29 +0000

I don’t understand why nobody has gone strait to the horses mouth. I’ve been in contact with Dr Nicky Grandy, Secretary to the Commission, International Whaling Commission, and he’s been wonderful about answering my questions and concerns. Below, I have copy/pasted my question along with Dr. Grany’s answer.

ME: I would like to know your opinion of the Japanese whaling fleet. Are they killing whale legitimately? Or are they in fact breaking the law?

Dr Nicky Grandy: Regarding Japan’s current whaling activities, Article VIII of the 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, under which the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established, allows Contracting (member) Governments to issue ‘special permits’ to take whales for research purposes (i.e. Article VIII – see http://www.iwcoffice.org/commission/convention.htm#convention . While Contracting Governments that issue permits must submit proposals (and the results from any research) for review, in accordance with the Convention, it is the Contracting Government that ultimately decides whether or not to issue a permit. The Commission as a body cannot prevent this type of research. The provisions in Article VIII override any other Commission regulations including the commercial whaling moratorium and sanctuaries. Article VIII also requires that the animals be utilised once the scientific data have been collected.

Research under Article VIII is very controversial among IWC members (and the public). While some Contracting Governments support this right – and Japan’s research programmes, other Contracting Governments believe the killing of whales for research purposes to be unnecessary given other research techniques now available. The Commission has adopted many Resolutions in the past by majority voting urging Japan and others to inter alia refrain from issuing ‘special permits’ but such instruments are not legally binding. The Resolutions are available on our website should you be interested in consulting them (go to: http://www.iwcoffice.org/meetings/resolutions/resolutionmain.htm).