Improve Protection from Hunting/ Whaling/ Culling
We have very little knowledge about
the local populations of whales and dolphins and the complex roles they may
play in keeping our marine ecosystem, including our fishery stock, healthy. We
also have very little knowledge about the pressures we may be placing on these animals
through other human activities, therefore it is unwise to damage local
populations for consumption or under the unproven impression that they may be
the cause of declining fish stock. In Trinidad and Tobago, we believe that we have no problem with whaling and little to no problem with hunting of small cetaceans and culling of cetaceans. However, we do feel that it is wise to ensure that this is and remains the case rather than assume that there is no problem. To do this, CCARO aims to determine if whaling, hunting or culling is occurring locally, what are the causes if any and what we can do in collaboration with the people involved, to reduce these activities if they are occuring.
| We should judge every
scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to
understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. Wilson |
