Marine Connection

Norway suspends whale hunt

Norwegian whalers have suspended their hunt mid-season this year with less than half the quota of 885 whales killed because demand is saturated, said Willy Godtliebsen, head of sales at the Norwegian Fishermen's Sales Organisation.

Whales have been protected by a moratorium on whale-hunting since 1986, but Norway does not abide by the ban. Some 350 minke whales have been harpooned so far and if new buyers for the whale meat can be found, then the hunt may resume.

According to Lise Mangseth, marketing director at the Norwegian Fishermen's Sales Organisation, the reason for the suspension is that the financial crisis has dissuaded processing plants from freezing but let us all hope that the demand for whale meat is the real cause. Norway and Iceland openly defy the 1986 international moratorium on commercial whaling, while Japan uses a loophole that allows 'lethal research' to kill the animals.

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