고래 한마리 가격

다 불법으로 잡아 놓고 우연히 잡혔다고 신고하는 경우가 태반임.

소위, '우연'으로 잡힌다는 전세계 고래의 70%정도가 우리나라에서 잡히는 거임.

그래서 국제고래협회(IWC)에서 한국에 대해서 계속 문제제기 하고 있음. 물론 쌩깜. 일본이 그러는 것 처럼...

고래고기 관련 산업은 불법을 묵인해주고 있다고 보는게 맞음.

국제고래협회에서는 우리나라 사실상 포경 국가로 보고 있음.

Japan and South Korea are the only countries that allow the commercial sale of products killed as ‘incidental by-catch’. The sheer number of whales represented by whale-meat products on the market suggests that both countries have an inordinate amount of by-catch,” Baker said. "The sale of by-catch alone supports a lucrative trade in whale meat at markets in some South Korean coastal cities, where the wholesale price of an adult Minke whale can reach as high as $100,000.” Given these financial incentives, you have to wonder how many of these whales are, in fact, killed intentionally." Other protected species of large whales detected in market surveys include Humpbacks, Fin whales, Bryde’s whales, and critically endangered western Gray whales. - IWC REPORT