The whales are an important part of the ecosystem, and recycling of the nutrients in the oceans.
Whales create more fish and helps fight climate change:
https://sustainablehuman.tv/remix/how-whales-change-climate
Norway is a member of the International Whaling Comitee, and they decided by a democratic vote, that all countries would stop whaling, and yet Norway continues:
https://iwc.int/commercial
Whales are intelligent, and social beings: http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/human-intelligence-versus-whales-and-dolphins/
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/humpbacks-protect-seals-and-other-animals-killer-whales-why
90% of the whales killed in Norway are pregnant mothers, their fetus gets dragged out and thrown away:
https://www.nrk.no/mr/dei-fleste-skotne-kvalane-har-foster-i-magen-1.13414065
Few eat whale meat in Norway. We send it to our fur farms, and Japan. Japan barely eats it too:
http://uk.whales.org/blog/2017/02/really-norway-you-want-to-kill-even-more-whales-though-no-one-wants-to-eat-them
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/japanese-barely-eat-whale-whaling-big-deal/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160331-norway-minke-whaling-fur-farms/
So why exactly are we doing this? If we uphold the moratorium on whaling, we would help restore the vital ecosystems in the ocean. Think about all the life that was out there in the ocean before, and see how it is now. Whaling led to the physically largest, and thus the most influential extinction of species in history: https://www.nature.com/news/world-s-whaling-slaughter-tallied-1.17080 read more