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"The government of Iceland has made the decision to formally phase out
commercial whaling by 2024, citing declining demand for whale meat on the
global market. The announcement closes the door on an industry that was already
moribund: the nation has only one whaling company left, and it has caught just
one whale since 2019.
"There is little proof that there is any economic advantage to this activity,"
wrote Svandis Svavarsdóttir, a member of Iceland's Left Green party, in a
recent editorial. "Why should Iceland take the risk of keeping up whaling,
which has not brought any economic gain, in order to sell a product for which
there is hardly any demand?"
In theory, Iceland administers quotas for just over 200 fin whales and 200
minke whales per year. However, when Japan restarted its domestic whaling
program after a hiatus in 2019, Japanese buyers effectively ceased importing
Icelandic whale meat. Japan is the world's primary market for whale, and
Iceland consumes relatively little of the meat domestically."
Via Future Crunch Feb 17, 2022:
https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews-measles-wolves-energy-down-under/
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