Iceland says no profits in whaling now
ICELAND could ban whaling in two years after its fisheries minister said there was no profit in it.
The country is one of only a handful that allows whaling but export demand dived after Japan resumed commercial whaling in 2019.
Minister Svandis Svavarsdottir said: “Why should Iceland take the risk of keeping up whaling, which has not brought economic gain, in order to sell a product for which there is hardly any demand?”
Despite annual quotas that allow 426 whales to be culled, only one has been caught in three years.
French and EU officials were investigating after the world’s second-biggest trawler, Margiris, spilled 100,000 dead whiting fish off France’s Atlantic coast.