lville’s days (Murphy 152). Whaling in the United States began to die out because of new products like petroleum, but the industry in foreign countries still prospered. The new methods made it so easy and fast to kill whales that the whale population could not keep up. The sharp decrease in the whale population caused the price of whale oil to skyrocket in foreign markets (Murphy 155). Whalers began looking in the Artic for whales and found them. The whalers became wasteful with the newfound whale population. They only used the thickest parts of the whales, which broke new whaling laws. They also began to build floating factories, which reduced the costs of butchering (Murphy 156). Present day whaling is still common in Japan, Russia, China, and Korea because they claim it is an important part of their economy and tradition. Now these nations have to battle with strict whaling laws and regulations and groups like Greenpeace, which fight hard to outlaw whaling. In 1994 the Southern Ocean Whaling Sanctuary was created to protect whales in the Antarctic, but Japanese whalers refuse to obey the international law (Williams). Now nations like the United States, England, New Zealand, and Australia have joined with Greenpeace to pressure Japan into putting an end to their commercial whaling. Greenpeace has protested against Japanese whaling many times. Greenpeace has used fire hoses to block the sight of whalers, helicopters to intercept whalers, volunteers to chain themselves to whaling boats, and have used many other tactics (Williams). While Greenpeace has been protesting, the United States, England, New Zealand, and Australia have been meeting with Japanese officials to compromise whaling regulations (Williams). Their efforts have made little progress in impressing Japan because they still are killing whales for food and products.Whaling in the United States is now more valuable as a tourist attraction (Murphy 171)....
