Unfortunately, you are right. I did not mean to imply that everything is fine for the whales. Some species recover much more quickly than others, and in the me

Unfortunately, you are right. I did not mean to imply that everything is fine for the whales. Some species recover much more quickly than others, and in the mean time, we continue to mess up their environment, be it by overfishing, global warming, noise pollution (or just plain old pollution) or ships running over whales like cars run over rabbits. All I meant to say was that at least some species have recovered rather impressively under these conditions. Which is far from perfect. But imagine mankind had just continued hunting whales on the scale that was common sixty or seventy years ago - there probably would not be enough whales around today for Japan to kill 177 of them.