Interesting article of whaling and how Russia almost made them extinct

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Fascinating, thanks. I knew about the Norwegians and Japs of course but hadn’t thought about the Russians. I have never yet seen a whale, but things have moved on from when I was a child and whales were assumed to be fair game. The trouble can be that removing predators, which is what whales are, can disturb and deplete the whole system. The loss of sperm whales was probably good news for giant squid but not so good for the ocean.
 
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