Norway Cuts Next Year’s Whale Quota Slightly
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Norway said this week that it plans to kill 670 minke whales next year in its controversial commercial hunt, a slight decline from this year’s number.
The Nordic country of 4.5 million people outraged environmentalists and many governments by resuming commercial whale hunts in 1993 despite a global ban.
Norway is the only country that hunts whales for profit, while Iceland and Japan cull them for research in hunts sanctioned by the International Whaling Commission.
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