The future of the International Whaling Commission is tenuous. A 'whale conservation market' might rescue it, say Christopher Costello, Leah R. Gerber and Steven Gaines.
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Costello, C., Gaines, S. & Gerber, L. A market approach to saving the whales. Nature 481, 139–140 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/481139a
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Donatella Del Piero
sounds a bit dangerous, the "auction system" should be biased, bet can be placed, edge funds.. I'm joking of course but on my opinion the danger is very high
H T
The idea is good, but the whale price is grossly underestimated. You can't just consider the whalers, but also others who are involved in the whale trade, esp. the high-end restaurants in Japan. In the end, the prices would be shocking if not astronomical. Additionally, how do you enforce the permit system? Go to the WTO? Right now, there are still too many if's and given's in the proposal for me to be convinced.
Ranjeet Singh Mahla
The organization IWC is based in UK and it cannot control over the whaling more than the suggestions because the question is that, what makes IWC in empower to control over whaling? Why Japan, USA, Russia and other should follow their guide lines. The inborn bioethics of governmental policymakers is leading the countries to abide the conservation guide lines as well to crush the bio ethics. Nature has given rights to every form of life to survive and to reproduce. My major question is that why Japanese?s leading whale to enter into threatened zone of existence and that is on the name of research purpose (very surprising). Science is not supposed to exploit the life forms to the level of danger zone. Why there is so strong bio ethics for human than the other life forms, we have to balance somewhere and we should opt something internationally so that nature can sustain us.