Whale-Watching & Safari Hunting

The BBC just published an article about how much more money whale watching brings in than whaling (hunting). I find this an interesting contrast to Tanzania where managed professional hunting outearns photographic tourism nearly 50:1. Ethics aside, this would seem to be an argument for whale-watching and hunting as the most economically viable uses of these natural resources.

For the record, I do not support whaling, and while I believe that hunting can be a sustainable and beneficial practice, I understand that it is prone to the same corruption and abuses that plague other industries as well. The Loliondo case makes me particularly sick and angry.