Whaling

By Dominic

Sudo-Hooper

 

   Have you ever heard of Whaling? How does it affect our life today? Whaling is actual hunting for whales mostly done by Japan. Because of this the population of whales are slowly decreasing. This persuasive essay will tell you about the background information, and two solutions about whaling. Whaling should stop to save whales from going extinct.

 

    Whaling started in the 16^th century. The whaling industry was doing great in America. Ships going out from ports roaming the globe in search of whale oils and other whale products. Whaling began as a coastal activity when they spotted a whale near the coast they were driven onto shore and killed. Only small whales could be killed but now people have harpoons to shoot the whales with so they can get bigger whales. In the 19th century steamboats and ship-mounted harpoon guns where making it easier for whaling to grow across the world. However, environmentalism started in the 1960s and over the years they became the most successful campaigns of the 1970s. A quote that Iceland announced was, “To catch 250 whales for research purposes over a two-year period, the first time for 13 years that whales have been caught officially.” This problem exists because people are supposable are studying whales for research. Some people believe whaling is ok some people think it’s cruel.

 

Therefore, a solution to whaling is to make it illegal. Whaling should be illegal because when whalers hunt using harpoons and they usually use them repeatedly before they are killed. Which makes the whale suffer from being hit repeatedly without dieing. Conversationalists said, “The harpoons are mostly grenade-tipped and designed to explode inside the animal. From being in the rough seas is why they get shot more than once and suffer.” The Japanese say that they are killing whales for study. They actually are using whales for food. Japanese are mainly the whalers and shouldn’t kill animals for food.

 

    Secondly, whaling should stop because a lot of whale species are endangered such as the blue whale. Blue whales use to be able to be spotted all over the ocean. Now whaling has made their population drop. Researchers said, “There used to be over 200,000 blue whales swimming in the sea. Today you can only spot blue whales on rare occasions.” Some people say whaling is okay because no whale species has gone extinct yet. But, a lot of whale species population are decreasing and are endangered. Whaling should be stopped and never be legal because whales are majestic creatures of the ocean.

 

Lastly, Whaling is cruel and should be stopped. One reason, it should stop is because whales are becoming endangered. Animals should never be endangered if we can do something about it. So stop whaling and make the species grow back to its full population.