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Selling Whales to Save Them? Kieran Mulvaney on a proposal by Nature writers. Writing in the journal Nature last week, Christopher Costello, Steven Gaines and Leah Gerber proposed “an alternative path forward that could break the deadlock: quotas that can be bought and sold, creating a market that would be economically, ecologically and socially viable for whalers and whales alike. Because conservationists could bid for quotas, whalers could profit from whales even without harvesting the animals.” keep reading photo: Illustration of the White Whale by A. Burnham Shute for Moby Dick by Herman Melville. (Corbis)

Selling Whales to Save Them?

Kieran Mulvaney on a proposal by Nature writers.

Writing in the journal Nature last week, Christopher Costello, Steven Gaines and Leah Gerber proposed “an alternative path forward that could break the deadlock: quotas that can be bought and sold, creating a market that would be economically, ecologically and socially viable for whalers and whales alike. Because conservationists could bid for quotas, whalers could profit from whales even without harvesting the animals.”

keep reading

photo: Illustration of the White Whale by A. Burnham Shute for Moby Dick by Herman Melville. (Corbis)