Second Whale Killed

Very overstated.

Man on the street interviews and the people I have talked with mostly seem to equate this whale hunt with any other food hunt. It's never pretty and not meant to be. The majority of folks in North America eat meat and if it is a cow taking a bolt in the forehead, the only difference is that you don't witness the killing on international TV. It's all nicely, emotionally, sanitised and wrapped in a McWrapper for you, but a creature died none the less.

Watching the footage on TV, I was reminded of why I have not hunted in some two decades but I do have a chicken in the fridge that lived and died for my families Tuesday night dinner. 'A chicken or cow are not awesome intelligent creatures like whales' I hear someone scream. I concur. I love to watch whales and just knowing that they share this planet with us appeals to me. Value judgements about what is, and what is not suitable to kill for food are cultural, and I think just a product of human ego.

I'm sure the Makah hunters will try not to let wounded animals escape, as does any conscientious hunter.

This could be the first whale, yes, but shot by the Makahs, no. It was televised all day here nonstop. No shot was fired after being harpooned on the first attempt Saturday, so you info is false in that regards Rich.

Makah Whale Slaughter Widens Second shot & harpooned whale found on Washington beach

May 18, 1999

When the Makah Indian tribe started dancing on the back of the Gray whale that they killed and towed into their Marina on Monday, it was in fact the second victim of their 'cultural revival.' The first one had already washed ashore a few miles south, unnoticed, two days earlier.

Sea Shepherd has learned that the body of a 20-foot long juvenile Gray whale was discovered seventy miles south of Neah Bay, near the town of Pacific Beach, Washington, the day after the Makah first began hunting on Saturday. The whale had been harpooned and shot with a heavy-caliber bullet.

A vacationing minister and his wife from Portland, Oregon, came upon the body near a former Naval radar station while walking on the beach shortly after 9 a.m. Sunday. Upon examining the body, the minister discovered a 'v'-shaped wound consistent with a harpoon strike about two-thirds of the way down the body from the nose, along with rope-burn marks. A single two-inch long bullet entry wound was visible on the whale's right flank just below the spine, with an exit wound 'about the size of a soup can lid' exiting on the left side in a nearly flat trajectory.

The minister's wife took his picture standing next to the whale. A local resident told the couple that government officials had been out to examine the whale the day before.

A firestorm of public criticism in both the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest has landed on the heads of the U.S. Coast Guard, state and federal officials, and the Makah since the images of a whale being killed on live television were first broadcast Monday. In subsequent re-broadcasts, the footage has been edited to avoid showing the most disturbing images.

Sea Shepherd and other activist groups and private citizens had successfully blocked the Makah hunt with a flotilla of boats and watercraft since last October, before the Coast Guard effectively seized most of the activists' boats this week and moved to crush all public protest on the water.

'Our phones have been ringing non-stop since Monday morning with people who are enraged or in tears or both,' said Sea Shepherd International Director Lisa Distefano. 'The horrific images from the evening news woke a lot of people up. They want to know what they can do about this, and we ask them if they've called Vice President Gore and asked him to revoke the Makah's illegal Dept. of Commerce hunting permit. We ask them if they've told their Congressmen that we are at the beginning of the 21st century, not the 19th, and it's time to amend the whale-hunting clause in the Makah's 1855 treaty accordingly.

'But then they want to know what they can possibly tell their children by way of explanation as they watch people pumping bullets into a whale, in America, on TV. We tell them we don't know the answer to that question.'

CALL U.S. Coast Guard Public Affairs Office Seattle tel: (206) 220-7235 - Tell them to release whale activists' boats and drop the charges!

U.S. Senator Patty Murray tel: (202) 224-2621 - Tell her you want whale hunting out of the Makah treaty! Washington Citizens Coastal Alliance

- Tell them you want to help with the Makah boycott!

Vice President Al Gore tel: (202) 456-1111 - Ask him how he's enjoying his personally authorized whale hunt!

Copyright 1999, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

The following lie is typical of the waffen-SS..sea serpEnt.

Well, at least you are smart enough to remove the Sea Shepherd copyright before altering the text, but you still aren't man enough (or literate enough) to write your own text. Or is your child doing this? And of course, you never discuss facts, just alter text.

one had already washed

It has been confirmed by the NMFS that the whale found was not killed by a Makah harpoon. It died of natural causes. The harpoon like marks that were found were actually samples taken by the NMFS. This also means that the whale that the Makah harpooned on Saturday could still be alive out there.

~ Tiggerlily 'Reality is the leading cause of stress... for those in touch with it.'

Teel, if you hate Euro's so much - stop taking their money!

Richard the barking dog of racism spreads more lies. Get a life racist!