[CINC] Cold War Whale Slaughter

[Paul Jr. Petrich]

Volunteers: Does anyone have the SB News-Press paid contact? Today's SB News-Press had an article by Peter Howorth  describing recent revelations of the wholesale Soviet slaughter of whales worldwide that had a disastrous effect on whale recovery numbers between 1948 to 1980. These were secret, deliberate illegal whaling operations ignoring all quotas imposed by the International Whaling Commission. Secret documents have now been revealed that tabulate some of the the following whale numbers killed: Humpbacks, 48,477; Pygmy Blue Whales, 8,439; Southern Right Whales, 3,212. The Russian marine biologist who exposed this state sponsored world wide hunt used these words..."whaling ships went like a red-hot iron through the working areas, leaving empty seas after them; some of these seas remain this way more than 20 years later."  A must read! Paul 		 	   		  
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