At the same time, the report showed how both agriculture and fisheries are eating away at their own assets. In view of such challenges, the management of renewable marine resources should be based on a general management system where one can extract the optimum sustainable yield from these resources with as little energy consumption and pollution as possible. Sustainable use of wildlife is a bankrupt philosophy that capitalizes on brutality and death. It has also been argued that whales and other cetaceans should not be hunted at an because of their uniqueness. Declaration by the Nordic Fisheries Ministers in conjunction with 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development.
Marine mammals are part of the living resources of the ocean ecosystems.
They should be protected when threatened and only hunted when there is certainty that the size of their stocks allows it. Hunting may also be necessary in order to avert over-population and imbalances in marine ecosystems. The role and the history of the IWC, in The Whale Problem ed. G.P. Donovan, The IWC and the Revised management Procedure, in Additional Essays on Whales and Man eds. Humane Society of the US, autumn 1994 newsletter .