Iceland Is New Front In Whale Wars

nytimes.com:

With Japan's whale hunt in stormy southern seas wrapped for the season, the battle over efforts by a handful of countries to expand whale hunts has shifted to Iceland. There, Greenpeace filmmakers caught video of a whaling vessel hauling two fin whales to the pier for processing. The environmental group is trying to force the new Iceland government to cancel the whaling quota set by the previous government, which collapsed amid the financial crisis. The quota would allow the killing of 150 fin whales and more than 100 minke whales each year for five seasons. So far, the new government has said it would not cancel this year's hunt.

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Comments

[Simen]

What are you talking about? Iceland is explicitly not bound by the IWC moratorium. "Breaking the law"? Please, at least keep your comments factual.

[fifty8]

Save the whales......collect the whole set.

[RoseMerry]

Whale are special. They have the biggest brains on the planet. Dr. Lilly proved the old dogma about big brains for big bodies was backwards - they have big bodies to support the big brains. Let them live.

[Rangergirl]

Why? Why are they killing whales....There is no good reason for it....There are other products that are the same .........Except the meat... Shame on them....they are breaking the law....Stop them...