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.

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.