When it comes to whales, we like to read them together with fish as "whales", and of course we know that they are not fish, but are mammals like humans, and are the largest mammals living in the ocean, and they are also very intelligent.
However, it is such a large and intelligent animal that is suffering from generations of human beings!
When it comes to the history of human whaling, it is hard to believe that it can be traced back to more than two thousand years ago in primitive humans!
For more than two thousand years BC, primitive people in the northern hemisphere had been hunting Biscayne right whales on the coast near Portugal.
Later, the natives of Tule in North America hunted Arctic right whales; the Indians on the Pacific coast, hunted gray whales; the Indians on the Atlantic coast, hunted gray whales and humpback whales!
However, although whaling at that time, it did not cause any harm to the whale race, after all, there were few whalers at that time, the whaling tools were backward, and human whaling was only for simple food. Relying solely on paddle rowing open-top boats, bone harpoons, and simple raw fur lines, it is difficult to successfully catch whales, and even if they are caught occasionally, they have no effect on the population reproduction of whale populations at that time.
By the 13th and 14th centuries, Europeans began to build large ships. These newly built large ships can not only sail near the coast, but also stop in distant waters. One of the earliest uses for building these large ships was to go farther afield to hunt whales.
The first to use large ships and go out to sea to hunt whales were the Basques, and Scannes and Atlantic gray whales became their targets.
The Basques, who went out to sea to hunt whales, also transported their prey back to shore as before, but their purpose of whaling has changed significantly!
The main purpose of the previous whalers was to eat, to survive, and these new whalers, who killed whales not for food, they only wanted whale oil and baleen! When the whale oil and baleen were finished, they threw the dead whale back into the ocean.
As for the reason for whale oil and baleen, it is because they are high-priced commodities. In Europe at that time, whale oil was used for illumination, and whale baleen was made into "horn" windows and utensils.
By the end of the 15th century, the Basques had made The Scanicles almost impossible to kill, and they were eyeing Arctic right whales.
Here, whaling is no longer just a primitive hunting act for survival, but has become a commercial hunting! Whales are no longer the food that humans use to survive, they have evolved into commodities for profit.
Whales became commodities that could generate great profits, and greedy humans hastened their slaughter. Since then, ocean-going whaling has become a greedy and barbaric massacre on a world scale!
By the mid-19th century, between the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, more than 2,000 whaling ships hunted and killed all kinds of whales day and night in order to enjoy the benefits brought by whales. By 1880, all kinds of cetacean populations, once huge and numerous, had been hunted and killed, and almost extinct!
In 1922, a Norwegian named Carl Anton Larsen invented the modern "whaling factory ship".
The emergence of this kind of ship saves the trouble of whaling ships ashore delivery, and the whales that can be killed can be processed directly on the ship, and this kind of factory ship can be whaling at sea for half a year.
With the factory ship, the whalers set their sights on the South Pole, at the pure Antarctic waters.
When these "butchers" stepped into the Antarctic waters, they began to carry out barbaric and greedy massacres of Antarctic animal populations. For a moment, the cold and blue waters of Antarctica were dyed red! This red water is stained with the blood of the whales.
During World War II, although humans suspended the hunting of cetaceans, frequent naval battles once again brought them damage. At the end of World War II, whales, which have not yet recovered from naval warfare, are once again facing human hunting. This time, the "butcher knife" used by humans is faster and more advanced!
By 1956, the blue whale had gone "commercial" into extinction, with fewer than 100,000 fin whales.
In 1960, there were fewer than 2,000 blue whales worldwide, and the number of fin whales decreased from 100,000 to about 40,000.
The rapid decline of cetaceans in the ocean also made people feel a sense of crisis, so the cetacean conservation association was established, but it was of little use, and in the eyes of whaling merchants, these associations were the same.
Today there are still individual countries, individual whalers, engaged in barbaric activities to hunt cetaceans!
For example, Denmark in the following.
Denmark – another country in the world besides Japan that allows legal whaling!
However, it is such a country that allows legal whaling, and at a whaling event this year, the photos that came out shocked the world.
Faroe Islands – Denmark's overseas self-governing territory.
In the past, the land resources of the Faroe Islands were scarce and people were short of food, but the waters around the islands were very rich in fishing resources, so the islanders mainly lived by fishing and whaling.
Later, under the condemnation of the outside world, although whaling behavior has been somewhat reduced, whaling has become a tradition. In the past 10 years, they have killed more than 6,000 whales and dolphins!
Just in June this year, the inhabitants of the Faroe Islands once again carried out large-scale whaling.
This time, a total of 175 pilot whales died in the gulf of the Danish Faroe Islands!
Judging from the videos and photos taken by the personnel of the "Ocean Guardians Association" with drones, this whaling activity is completely a "whale killing conference" for pilot whales, and the means used are cruel and barbaric!
As can be seen through the video, after the local residents found the group of pilot whales that liked to live in groups, various boats chased after them together, using the sound emitted by the ship's engine to create a "sound barrier wall", so that the pilot whales could not find the correct swimming route, forcing the whales to swim to their designated bay, that is, the "whale killing venue" behind!
When the whales are forced to swim into the designated bays, they once again drive the whales, and the frightened pilot whales will run aground on the shore.
When the whales run aground, the fishermen on the shore will rush into the sea, pull them ashore with ropes and iron hooks, and then stab them with long knives to cut their spinal cords, cut off their necks with a fast knife, and finally eat their flesh.
Due to the large number of pilot whales killed, the speed of hunting was too fast, so that the entire sea water of the whale bay was stained red with the blood of the pilot whale!
Commenting on the large-scale whaling campaign in Denmark, Robert Reid, chief operating officer of the Guardians of Marine Life Association, said: "This is a barbaric act of the past, today's civilized humans must wake up, this hunting behavior is long overdue a century ago, and the pilot whale has no obligation to feed anyone." ”
As Robert Reid said above: Whaling is a barbaric act that should have ended long ago, and they have no obligation to feed humans!
They should belong to the oceans, to the earth, not to the guts and interests of human beings.