“There are few justifications to authorize whale searching past 2024,” when present quotas expire, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Svandís Svavarsdóttir stated in an op-ed in Friday’s Morgunblaðið newspaper.
The minister wrote it used to be “undisputed” that whale searching had no longer had a lot financial importance to Iceland in recent times, without a large whale stuck within the ultimate 3 years, with the exception of for one minke whale in 2021.
“Japan has been the most important purchaser of [Icelandic] whale meat, however its intake is declining 12 months via 12 months. Why will have to Iceland take the chance of constant fishing that has no longer yielded financial advantages, with a purpose to promote a product this is in low call for?” she requested.
Consistent with the IWC, whose function is “to supply for the correct conservation of whale shares and thus make imaginable the orderly construction of the whaling business,” Iceland persisted a small “medical whaling program” after the 1986 embargo.
Iceland resumed business whaling in October 2006 in a transfer “furiously disputed via many nations offended at what they thought to be Iceland’s try to bypass world rules,” consistent with Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), a non-profit group.
