Greece is Bankrupt

[Sibling DavidH]

... join the EU ...

Quite right, Zono.  Unthinkable.

[Swatopluk]

It was one of Norway's wisest choices to stay out.
It was an easy decision though given the simply outrageous demands of esp. France and Spain including unrestricted fishing in Norwegian territorial waters. The answer was a polite version of "You'll get shells not fish, if your fishing fleets show up up here!".

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Among the reasons frequently cited is the ban on whaling (which if adopted would improve the perceptions of people like me about the country).

[Swatopluk]

Arm the whales!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

You reminded me some nasty stuff done by the US Navy (and surely by others) training dolphins as kamikazes.
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Alas, sinking whalers would only shift the sympathy towards those... individuals.

[Swatopluk]

Is there any animal that has not been abused by the military?

A good idea would be a poison to imbed in the whale meat that's harmless to the animal but fatal in case of consumption by humans.
Ironically, lovers of whale/dolphin meat esp. in Japan can suffer from severe mercury poisoning because the stuff accumulates at the top of the food pyramid

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Too many whales killed before the idiots who eat them die of poisoning.

[Swatopluk]

Well, add more and faster poison. Fish (and amphibs) can do, so why shouldn't mammals?
Fugu Whale!

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Is there any animal that has not been abused by the military?

Cats.

And certain species of snail darter...

[Aggie]

Well, add more and faster poison. Fish (and amphibs) can do, so why shouldn't mammals?
Fugu Whale!

Fugu is delicious - that wouldn't stop the Japanese, I think.  Might increase the price.

[Swatopluk]

Yeah but in Fugu the posion is in the parts not usually eaten. One would have to engineer the wahles differently.
There's a problem though. How to protect Orcas that have other whales on their menu (not all of them have)?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Train them to bite a poisoned pill if caught (although that would be problematic for the orcas too).

[Sibling DavidH]

Catch a load of whales.  Implant each with a small battlefield nuke and a computerised sensor system to explode it only when a large metal object approaches very fast and very close.  Should make a relatively small and unobtrusive lump in the blubber.
You'd lose two or three more whales and then the blaggards would have to stop harpooning them.

[Griffin NoName]

[Swatopluk]

In order to get back to Greece elegantly:
Whales/marine mammals are also highly at risk from oil spills.
Greece has a horrible track record there since Greeks tend(ed?) to be the last owners of tankers.
Those owners put very low priority on maintenance or the credentials of the crews.
A German reporter (about 1980) managed to get (with a wee bit of small scale bribery) a mate's certificate and a commission on a supertanker there. His 'qualification' was a simple yachtmaster. A pure horror story.