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December 25, 2005
Greenpeace in action against the Japanese whalers:
This is commercial whaling by the Japanese. The Japanesea say they are hunting minke whales for scientific research yet most end up the whale meat ends up as high-priced luxury food in Japan.
There was a history of commercial whaling at Victor Harbor in the nineteenth century:
At the base of the Bluff (Rosetta Head) is the site of Victor Harbor's old whaling station. In the early 1870's whaling was a thriving local industry. It has been estimated that around a hundred thousand Southern Right whales used to pass through the waters of Encounter Bay, prior to whaling. Whalers came to the area from Britain, France, America and north-eastern Australia. They hunted the whales almost to extinction.
Although whaling ceased in the 1870s, there are now only an estimated seven thousand Southern Rights in the world. So it's go Greenpeace go
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