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ублюдочная китобойная индустрия
Хорошая статья
https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-senseless-environment-crime-of-the-20th-century-russia-whaling-67774
про то, как криминальная рашка подделывала документы,
чтобы невозбранно уничтожать сотни тысяч китов, в обход
международных соглашений, и всех уничтожила, без
какого-либо профита для экономики. То есть единственный
профит был для матросов и офицеров, которые все
поголовно барыжили фарцой. Но китов они убивали исправно,
несмотря на полную ненужность и убыточность ублюдочной
китобойной индустрии, потому как сверху спускали план
по убийству, от года к году все больше и больше.

В 1960-х совки полностью очистили южное полушарие
от китов, и перебрались на север Тихого Океана, где
(среди прочего) убивали вымирающих японских гладких
китов ("right whale"), и практически всех уничтожили.
Теперь их осталось 200-400 штук, они не могут
размножаться, и скорее всего вымрут совсем.

Эта страна всегда была говно.

...Years later, in late 1990, Brownell's colleague Peter
Best was trying to track down data on right whale
fetuses. Right whales were the first whale species to come
under international protection, in 1935, and Best had been
able to locate records of just 13 fetus specimens. On a
hunch, he thought to ask Yablokov. Replying months later,
Yablokov reported that he had records of about 150
fetuses. At first, Best recalls, he thought he had
misunderstood: 150 fetuses would mean that the Soviets had
killed at least one or two thousand members of the most
protected whale species in the world.

In fact, it turned out to be more than three
thousand. Brownell arranged for Yablokov-now the science
adviser to the new Russian president, Boris Yeltsin-to
make his confession public, in a short speech before a
marine mammalogy conference in Galveston, Texas, in
1993. The catch records the Soviets had given the IWC for
decades, Yablokov told the scientists in Galveston, had
been almost entirely fictitious. Exactly how wrong they
were Yablokov didn't yet know. The Soviet fisheries
ministry had classified its whaling data-even doctoral
dissertations based on the numbers couldn't be made
public-and as a matter of protocol had destroyed most of
the original records.

Yablokov and Brownell both began piecing together the
real figures with the assistance of several scientists
who had worked aboard the whaling fleets. (Brownell
cheekily dubbed them the Gang of Four.) In some cases,
they had preserved clandestine troves of documents for
decades in hopes of eventually correcting the historical
record. The false figures, they knew, had informed years
of thinking about whale conservation and population
science. It was possible that much of what scientists
outside of Russia believed they understood was wrong.

The most valuable set of records came from the scientist
Dmitri Tormosov, who had been stationed aboard the factory
ship Yuriy Dolgorukiy beginning in the late
1950s. Tormosov had quietly instructed his colleagues to
save their individual catch records-what they called
"whale passports"-instead of burning them after the record
of the season had been filed, as required by the fisheries
ministry. When the collection grew into the tens of
thousands of pages, Tormosov moved it into his potato
cellar. The records covered 15 whaling seasons, and they
allowed the non-Russian scientists to grasp, for the first
time, the scale of the killing. Even scientists who for
years had harbored suspicions of the Soviets were stunned
by the true numbers. "We had no idea it was a systematic
taking of everything that was available," Best told
me. "It was amazing they got away with it for so long."

The Soviet whalers, Berzin wrote, had been sent forth to
kill whales for little reason other than to say they had
killed them. They were motivated by an obligation to
satisfy obscure line items in the five-year plans that
drove the Soviet economy, which had been set with little
regard for the Soviet Union's actual demand for whale
products. "Whalers knew that no matter what, the plan
must be met!" Berzin wrote. The Sovetskaya Rossiya seemed
to contain in microcosm everything Berzin believed to be
wrong about the Soviet system: its irrationality, its
brutality, its inclination toward crime.

Berzin contrasted the Soviet whalers with the Japanese,
who are similarly thought to have caught whales off the
books in the Antarctic (though in numbers, scientists
believe, far short of the Soviets). The Japanese,
motivated as they were by domestic demand for whale meat,
were "at least understandable" in their actions, he
wrote. "I should not say that as a scientist, but it is
possible to understand the difference between a motivated
and unmotivated crime." Japanese whalers made use of 90
percent of the whales they hauled up the spillway; the
Soviets, according to Berzin, used barely 30
percent. Crews would routinely return with whales that had
been left to rot, "which could not be used for food. This
was not regarded as a problem by anybody."

This absurdity stemmed from an oversight deep in the
bowels of the Soviet bureaucracy. Whaling, like every
other industry in the Soviet Union, was governed by the
dictates of the State Planning Committee of the Council
of Ministers, a government organ tasked with meting out
production targets. In the grand calculus of the
country's planned economy, whaling was considered a
satellite of the fishing industry. This meant that the
progress of the whaling fleets was measured by the same
metric as the fishing fleets: gross product, principally
the sheer mass of whales killed.

Whaling fleets that met or exceeded targets were rewarded
handsomely, their triumphs celebrated in the Soviet press
and the crews given large bonuses. But failure to meet
targets came with harsh consequences. Captains would be
demoted and crew members fired; reports to the fisheries
ministry would sometimes identify responsible parties by
name.

...Grimmest is the case of the North Pacific right whale,
which appears to have been all but killed off by Soviet
whalers over the course of three years in the
mid-1960s. "The species is now so rarely sighted in the
region," Clapham and Ivashchenko wrote in 2009, "that
single observations have been publishable in scientific
journals. We cannot be sure, but it is entirely possible
that when the few remaining right whales in the eastern
North Pacific live out their lives and die, the species
will be gone forever from these waters."

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Что интересно, сейчас та же самая тупая хуйня происходит
в Японии, где потребность рынка в китовом мясе неуклонно
падает, а государство продолжает субсидировать убыточную
китобойную индустрию.

Update: вот тут статистика по разным видам китов
http://csiwhalesalive.org/csi97403.html

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