Greenland seeks whaling breakaway (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Greenland is attempting to remove its whale hunt from the jurisdiction of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), BBC News has learned.

Its whalers are angry that the IWC has twice declined to permit the addition of humpback whales to its annual quota.

The move could make Greenland the only state outside the IWC to systematically hunt the "great whales".

The news comes on the eve of a Florida meeting aimed at finding compromise within the fractured IWC.

The meeting is the latest stage in a "peace process" which began more than a year ago.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7611617.stm

[flvegan]

1. Because it's not for survival any more, it's for profit.

The aboriginal people are allowed to take x number of whales to feed the community. Now, they're taking more and selling some of it and turning a profit.

[kristopher]

2. Japan will be next.

Once they leave the IWC they have no restraints at all.

Heck of a job.