AquaMarine Life

The fate of the 21-year-old moratorium on commercial whaling is a numbers’ game played at the annual International Whaling Commission meeting, and this year Japan is still short of votes in its drive to overturn the ban. Tokyo, which has fought for years to undo the 1986 moratorium, sent shivers through anti-whaling ranks last year when it rallied a one-vote majority at the IWC for a symbolic resolution saying the ban was no longer needed.

The word “grouper” comes from Portuguese “garoupa”. One interesting fact to know is that in New Zealand and Australia, the name for several species of Grouper is referred to as Groper, as in the Epinephelus lanceolatus Queensland Groper. In the Middle East, the fish is known as Hammour, and is widely eaten, especially in the Gulf Region.