| Show A WHALE OF A LIFE A surprising fact to many Americans is that the Amer Ican buffalo might still be roaming the Western Plains In in massive numbers If It had been given the same protection we now give whales Thanks to the efforts 0 of f the International Whaling Commission no whale spa Iles cies will ever be hunted t to extinction by commercial whalers The Whaling Com mission prohibits the com mercial whaling of all stocks and species In danger of depletion Now commercial whal Ing is limited only to stocks and species at healthy levels These catch quotas are kept lower than the yearly reproduction reo re placement levels There are about three million whales In the world During the past year the Whaling Commission permit ted teda a catch of only fourteen thousand whales Of those eighty percent were the now dominant fast reproducing minke whale species now believe that minke whales should be culled back to permit faster recovery of depleted fin and blue whales |
