Maybe that's got more to do with the fact that the Faroe Islands have a population of 52,000 while Japan's population is 125,410,000? Surely the fishing practic

Maybe that's got more to do with the fact that the Faroe Islands have a population of 52,000 while Japan's population is 125,410,000? Surely the fishing practices of the nation 2400x larger are going to be more impactful by at least an order of magnitude or two. Edit: We don't have to guess. Using 1986 numbers since this is when I remember the world being peak-Save-The-Whales (Star Trek IV's release year). Admittedly if you use current numbers they're closer, but that's because Japan's fishing output has decreased dramatically. That decrease is due to exhaustion of its fishing grounds; their fishing practices i.e. square milage of nets it's putting in the water each day remain mostly unchanged. Faroe - 355,000 metric tons fished in 1986 Japan - 12,750,000 metric tons fished in 1986 Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/faroe-islands/total-fisheries-production-metric-tons-wb-data.html https://tradingeconomics.com/faroe-islands/total-fisheries-p... and corresponding Japan page.