User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-107.193.43.114-20130310021016/@comment-4829046-20130310030128

Its not really a disgrace considering that in old times, most animals were abundant and only those endemic animals that couldn't defend themselves, were overkilled. so if the whale species in the game still exist today, then that means the species survived without too much difficulty. However if they show some extinct whale, then there might be a problem like "Seriously? Edward made those whales extinct?"

However it is still too early to jump to conclusions since we aren't sure whether whaling is possible.