Norway Cuts Next Year’s Whale Quota Slightly
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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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