Iceland issues whaling licence

At the Whaling Station, Hvalfjörður in 2018

 

Sad to say that the Iceland government has issued a one-year licence for whaling today – click here.

It’s clear that the government has not gone as far as whaling interests would like, having taken a long time to make a decision, only issuing a one-year licence and limiting the number of Fin Whales that can be killed to ‘only’ 128 animals when there was probably headroom for a larger number.

But it’s a sad day – and they beat England at football last week!

The former Prime Minister, Katrin Jacobsdottir, who I met in September 2018, of the Left/Green coalition left office 63 days ago and her successor, Bjarni Benediktsson, of the Independence Party, may be a bit more sympathetic to whaling it seems.

 

 

 

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