they only got to hunt once. they've been tied up in the courts since then
You mean after they used a M2 .50 cal machine gun to tear the whale in half; "just like their ancestors did?"
I think they "have" to - you know to be "humane". I'd be all for forcing them to do it using traditional methods (which are very cool and ingenious, BTW, involving harpoons and bouys that wear the whale out, and an ahtletic multi-hour chase).