Stakeholder Analysis Sea Shepherd

1.) The key issue here is whaling and whether or not it is something that needs to happen in this day and age. There are many stakeholders that come to mind in the whaling debate. In order to go more in depth with the analysis, I am going to focus on the grindadráp, also known as the grind, in the Faroe Islands. The Grind happens is that during the summer, the Faroese people surround pilot whales with a semicircle of boats, then they drive these whales to shore where the hunters wait to kill them. Sea Shepherd does not believe that this should happen and have gone done to the Faroe Islands to stop it.

2.) The first group that is considered a stakeholder would be the Faroese people who rely on this meat for much of their meals. The whale meat makes up about 30% of all meat produced locally on the island. The economy of the Faroe Islands is very dependent on the fishing industry, which is another reason why they are such key stakeholders . Sea Shepherd is also a key stakeholder because they want to protect the whales and have gone down to the Island to do so. Sea Shepherd believes that the “slaughter is particularly gruesome since the killing is conducted as a community sporting event…” they have also stated that “the hunt is done because of tradition and the absurd belief by the Faeroese that God gave the whales to the people to be slaughtered” . A third stakeholder would be the Faroese government who regulates the drive. They stipulate “in detail requirements for organization, supervision and conduct of the whale drive, killing methods and approved equipment, as well as rules for distribution of the shares of the catch” . A fourth stakeholder would be the community on the Faroe Islands. “Catches of whales are shared largely without the exchange of money among participants in a hunt and residents of the local district where they are landed” . These people live off the meat and they do not hunt because of profit. The community needs the meat to survive; on the