arguments

Arguments

The fishing companies claim their necessity to work because they have been doing these activities for many decades and in most of the cases, these are family business. They say that their whole infrastructure of their ships like rig, nets and harpoons have been designated to whaling; also, their market is essentially for the sale of whale meat.
They argue that a change in their kind of work would be impossible and they do not really have an option, also they explain that supposedly have complied with the fishing regulations.
In the other, hand the environmentalist claim stop whaling and other kind of destructive fishing methods, because these fishing companies are doing an irreparable damage to the nature. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) , Greenpeace and other organization in favor of the ecosystem conservation demand to the governments specially Japan , Noriega and Iceland respect fishing regulations and suggest that they would practice conventional fishing and emphasizes avoid areas like the Australian Whale Sanctuary.