Iceland resumes Whaling BOYCOT ICELAND

Iceland has announced it is to resume the commercial hunting of whales as early as next week.

Icelandic ships will take nine fin whales, an endangered species, and 30 minke whales each year.


Hvalur 9, the Icelandic whaler, caught its first fin whale off the coast of Snaefellsnes peninsula on Saturday.

According to captain and shooter, Sigurdur Njálsson, the 60-ton beast died immediately. The whale meat, around 20 tons, will be sold to Japan. This is reported in all the main media.

Minister of Fisheries, Einar K. Gudfinnsson, told Fréttabladid that he was happy with the catch. At this time of year fin whales have usually left for warmer waters.

After delivering the kill to Hvalstödin whale station, Hvalur 9 headed out to sea again. The whale hunters have permission to hunt another eight fin whales.

The international community has criticized Iceland's decision to resume commercial whaling. UK's Minister of Fisheries, Ben Bradshaw, told RÚV fin whales are on the brink of extinction.

Gísli Víkingsson of Iceland's Marine Institute disagrees. He explained to RÚV that the fin whale stock in Icelandic waters is not in any danger of extinction, although it might be in other parts of the world.

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[ygdrasil21]

GO ICELAND! GO NORWAY! Intelligent peoples needs intelligent food!

[hex99jojo]

Nothing is wrong with the whale hunting in Iceland. Anti whalers are the extremists.

[MrA1WAR]

@gerritos hahaha, whale is very healthy unlike the fast food that you eat fat ass !

[mrbooyeah]

tourism in your countries will go broke , WATCH all australians boycott your countries , we are takin donations for a tv campaign from our whale watch boat .. hope seashephard come and sink your ships / you inhumane inbred hillbillys

[cillantro]

Yeah it is ironic how dubai world and dubai gets away without paying its(HUGE)dues but Iceland falls prey to stupid brittania's gunship policies.This despite dubai world being owned by dubai but icleandic banks are private.I am anti-whaling but would like to travel aboard one of these vessels if possible just for adventure's sake.I think whaling if needed desperately should be made ritualistic(once a year like the inuit)for natives who have been doing it for eons,like the Japanese and Icelanders

[volcanicvikingo]

@siggisavage ööömmm...hvalur er ekki fiskur

[in10forever]

@gerritos Lol.. Nice money you have there bro!! :D

HAHAHAHAHAH

[channychanzy]

@siggisavage "eating all of our fish"? that is the most ignorant thing to say. WE are eating all of our fish!

[rttjenk8]

I m going to Iceland for a three week trip in a month.

[saevaroa]

Try to understand it. If anyone should pay something it is the banks themselves. Not the people. I say if some bank in Iceland owes money to someone abroad then they can like everyone else go to court and get it. Our court system is totally independant and I think it is the best solution.

[saevaroa]

If they were endangered we would not hunt them. It is as simple as that.

[saevaroa]

I agree with you on that we should not eat an endangered species. But the whales we eat are not endangered.

Did you know this.

For anyone really interested to know what is what you should check out the International Whaling Council home page and there you can see that their chief scientist Greg Donovan states that Iceland´s whaling has no effect on the stock.