The Pros And Cons Of Protecting Traditional Fishing Villages

As a means of protecting the traditional fishing villages and communities that have always depended on such whaling, yes I agree with the cultural exception for the wale hunting ban. What I don't agree with, is using culture as a gateway excuse for commercial whaling. Traditional whaling does not include the need for a fishing village to own and operate a multi-million dollar fleet of large commercial whaling ships for example. The problem is that Japan and Norway were seeking exemptions as nations, which leaves the door open to commercial whaling for these nations under the exemptions. The claim is that they are defending their cultural heritage. They call attention to their traditional fishing villages, but culture is across nations as a whole. The reality is that each country can use their traditional fishing villages as an excuse to

However, that's a fine line to be drawn because these nations already allow outside authorities to prevent them from endangered species, for example. If they already submit to outside authorities regarding other species, then it follows that they should adhere to the whaling ban too. There are many twists and turns to this because as we say that the nation should adhere to the waling ban, we are sympathetic to the local fishing villages that wish to preserve their traditional cultural ways. The exemption needs to be made to the regions that the fishing villages occupy, not the entire nation as a whole. The exemption should also stipulate that there is to be no commercial whaling in these regions. Moving down to more detail, the term “commercial whaling” will need to be defined because some of the villages also need the revenue generated by whaling to survive. Receiving financial benefit could be misinterpreted as commercial whaling and that needs to be