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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 02:10 AM
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Iceland whaling go-ahead 'likely' - BBC
Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Thursday, 13 March 2008, 17:12 GMT

Iceland whaling go-ahead 'likely'
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Iceland is likely to approve the commercial hunting of whales
for this summer, the BBC has learned.

Its whaling industry is asking for a quota of about 100 minke
whales and a number of fin whales too.

A government official confirmed it is "likely" that quotas
will be issued soon, with the season starting in May.

Iceland resumed commercial whaling in 2006, but said last
year that quotas would only be issued if there was a demand
for the meat.

This was interpreted in some quarters as spelling an end
to the Icelandic hunt; but the minke whaling industry says
it has sold all the meat from the last two years' catch,
which shows there is an appetite for whale products.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7294564.stm
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Annces Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-14-08 10:05 AM
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1. Japan must be lobbying them
Edited on Fri Mar-14-08 10:07 AM by Annces
They will try to sell the meat to Japan

Einar K. Guðfinnsson, Minister of Fisheries, is the one to make the decision.








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