Whale blood runs back into the Southern Ocean from the decks of a Japanese whaling vessel. While Japan's whaling is ostensibly scientific in nature, Norway and Iceland simply hunt commercially in spite of the IWC moratorium, said Henry. "Iceland acts with complete impunity," said Henry. "They essentially conduct their whaling in an unsustainable manner with no oversight from the IWC."
Japan, Iceland, and Norway have together killed more than 30,000 whales since the international moratorium on commercial whaling was enacted in 1986, according to IWC statistics. |