Conservationists should take heart. The mainstream media, at least in the US, is tired of the trivial nature of this debate, which can no longer be sustained with rational, science based reasons why whaling should remain a memory in history. Most media organizations are ignoring the entire issue. Their reasons may be that they have no evidence that their readers/viewers care about it enough to pay attention. Others may have lingering doubts about their own status as credible news givers, and will not take a chance on offending a segment of their public that has never been well defined in a statistical way. Telling the unvarnished truth sometimes requires unvarnished courage.

Media are finally recognizing that objections to resumption of whaling are not science based, but come from specific and narrow cultural preference, accompanied by political threats and unlawful economic actions against those nations that support a reasonable and documentable resumption of commercial whaling.

Whales are so numerous in some areas, that they are having an adverse impact on the fish biomass, consuming a minimum of 300 million tons of it yearly. If whales were truly still endangered, no one would begrudge them their feast, nor would it be of that magnitude. Yes, there has been overfishing, and not all of it has been our fault, unless we wish to finally admit that by "saving" the whales, we have endangered the balance of all life in the oceans. Perhaps "save the fish" should be one focus of the pro-whaling point of view, in which documentable sustainability of both whale and fish harvests are an ultimate goal.