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Extra: A Modern Whaler Speaks Up

Freakonomics Radio

CHAPTER

The Importance of Balance in the Ecosystem

Stephen Dubner talks with Bjorn Anderson, a Norwegian fisherman and whale hunter. In the US, some species of deer are considered a nuisance animal for a lot of reasons. You have to try to balance the ecosystem as good as you can because then it will produce the most. If you don't shoot whale, the ecosystem will collapse sooner or later.

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