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**Trebbinsa** · 01-17-2011, 11:51 PM

The Southern Ocean is not "right next door" to Japan, you imbecile.

The Southern Ocean is also "halfway around the world" from Japan, just in a north-south direction rather than an east-west one. Distance means nothing to the Japanese!

So I don't know their favored poaching grounds. Whatever. Nobody protects whales, and they're hunted in international waters far away from people. They don't have to bribe anybody or sneak around, or worry about overland transport. Or tropical diseases, or any of the other weird, horrible crap that goes on in Africa. They can go in, kill a whale openly and do whatever they want with the carcass, without danger.

EDIT: Well, they do have to worry about storms, that's one danger.

01-17-2011, 11:51 PM	#8
Trebbinsa Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 457 Senior Member	The Southern Ocean is not "right next door" to Japan, you imbecile. The Southern Ocean is also "halfway around the world" from Japan, just in a north-south direction rather than an east-west one. Distance means nothing to the Japanese! So I don't know their favored poaching grounds. Whatever. Nobody protects whales, and they're hunted in international waters far away from people. They don't have to bribe anybody or sneak around, or worry about overland transport. Or tropical diseases, or any of the other weird, horrible crap that goes on in Africa. They can go in, kill a whale openly and do whatever they want with the carcass, without danger. EDIT: Well, they do have to worry about storms, that's one danger.
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