Originally Posted by Webby

Sure they are - tho that has never stopped assholes from killing them.

Won't say where it is, but there is one location in the Pacific (OK wrong ocean for Iceland), where whales still breed. Was chatting with one of the monitoring people and apparently that is the last place left on the whole of the Pacific rim where whales are free to breed. Astounding when you consider the total mileage of shoreline around the Pacific

Almost all other locations have been screwed up to a level that whales no longer go there.

It's also damned amazing to watch whales with their young - they teach them how to dive (duh? who knew they don't know how to dive?). The water in this area is very clean and uncontaminated - with a temperature like a jacuzzi. The only threat to young whales are dolphins who "pack hunt" them, - but the parent thrashes em away.

It's ironic that folks are spending a lot of time and money trying to leave areas uncontaminated to allow whales to breed - and on the other hand, idiots are killing em.