I don't think your analogy holds. The big issue with granting commercial hunting rights is that you have hunters (and related industries) launching political at

I don't think your analogy holds. The big issue with granting commercial hunting rights is that you have hunters (and related industries) launching political attacks to expand them using the income and playing the victim when you take them away due to resulting stock decline. Once they are out of minke they will legally or illegally hunt something else. (Whether it is one or the other is just a matter of how much money they have to corrupt policy verse hunting completely illegally like a portion of the fish industry sneaking around the coasts of poor nations.) If they can't play by rules they don't agree with now then they aren't going to play by them when they have expanded on minke, represent a larger portion of some GDP and are looking to keep their larger fleet financed.