Editing Orca (section)

===Human attacks on orcas===
Competition with fishermen also led to orcas being regarded as pests. In the waters of the [[Pacific Northwest]] and [[Iceland]], the shooting of orcas was accepted and even encouraged by governments.{{sfn|Obee|Ellis|1992|pp=Chapter 1}} As an indication of the intensity of shooting that occurred until fairly recently, about 25% of the orcas captured in [[Puget Sound]] for aquariums through 1970 bore bullet scars.{{sfn|NMFS|2005|p=41}} The U.S. Navy claimed to have deliberately killed hundreds of orcas in Icelandic waters in 1956 with machine guns, rockets, and [[depth charge]]s.<ref>Killer Whales Destroyed: VP-7 Accomplishes Special Task, ''Naval Aviation News'', December 1956, p. 19. Reproduced at [http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/KillerWhale/deathkw.html Longevity and Causes of Death] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619230958/http://seaworld.org/infobooks/KillerWhale/deathkw.html |date=June 19, 2010 }}, SeaWorld/Busch Gardens ANIMALS. Retrieved January 11, 2010</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Naval War Declared Against Killer Whales|journal=The Science News-Letter|volume=69|issue=24|page=374|year=1956|jstor=3936619 |doi=10.2307/3936617}}</ref>