i am a lifelong hunter after several decades there is a moral question universal to it all. why? there will always be destruction we might get destroyed tomorrow by an "evil" asteroid. we are probably destroying some profound aspect of nature by merely commenting on this adn article. without alaska native whaling that has been around for thousands of years we might never know anything about bowheads. be that as it may today's whaling is managed to high standards, pairs traditions with science and sometimes the animals kill the hunter and so it goes both ways. i wish we had the luxury of mandating peace and love and there never was any destructive tendency in society or nature. until we can all transcend the need for food which in rural alaska is sometimes 10X the rest of the country i will respectfully hunt and continue to entertain those questions and thoughts on what is right even those that say eating animals like a whale is wrong