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Iceland resumes commercial whaling

Last week, Icelandic authorities announced that they would resume commerical hunting of minke and fin whales; over the weekend they made their first kill. News@nature.com takes a look at the issue.

Iceland has had an on-again off-again relationship with the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which instigated a moratorium against commercial whaling from 1986.

Read the briefing here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on October 23, 2006 05:47 PM |

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In terms of conservation, there really is nothing to see here.

This is obviously sustainable.

The IWC Secretariat has just posted information confirming what Iceland has been saying:
http://iwcoffice.org/conservation/iceland.htm

It's clearly time for the europeans and their colonies to "get over it", so to speak.

What needs to happen is the IWC must now implement a regulatory system that would bring Iceland's (and Norway's) commercial whaling back under IWC supervision, before the possibility that they start setting unsustainable quotas becomes a reality.

Posted by: david@tokyo | October 24, 2006 06:11 AM

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