One of our campaigners in New Zealand, Karli Thomas, sent me a link to a recent program from 60 minutes New Zealand. It contains some disturbing information.
 

We know that whales face many threats beyond  whaling including ship strikes, entanglement in fishing nets and the impacts of climate change.

But the program contains  evidence that the greatest threat to whales could be overfishing – it claims that we are starving our whales by pillaging the seas.

And our exploitation of fish stocks has moved from larger species such as tuna down the food chain to animals like krill –  a key stable for many great whale species.

The Japanese Government undertakes a fraudulent “scientific” whaling hunt each year in the Southern Ocean that kills anywhere between 500 and 1000 whales.

But how many whales does our insatiable appetite for seafood leave hungry?

You can view the program here:

http://www.3news.co.nz/Deep-Trouble-/tabid/209/articleID/169002/Default.aspx