The Whaling Industry Today - Norway and Japan
Date Submitted: 09/11/2000 06:13:58
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 2 pages (524 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 2 pages (524 words)
Norway has resumed whaling back in 1993 with an international agreement in accordance with an International Whaling Convention. Since then, the Norwegians have consumed an average of 1000 tons of whale meat per year. Obviously, this is not enough to make whale meat part of the usual Norwegian diet, but it is used in a great deal of culinary delights in which other countries, such as Japan, would like to partake. In 1987, the whaling industry in Norway …
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…limited, non-endangering whaling be resumed. If they are overpopulated, then we should act upon them just as we do with any other sort of overpopulation (e.g. deer)
Sources:
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/s143712.htm - The World Today Archive - Monday, 26 June , 2000
http://webspiffy.com/japan/report/ - WHALING GONE AWRY - by Mike Steinbaugh November 14, 2000
http://www.70south.com/news/1019735467/index_html - Whaling commission meets today by Brendon Grunewald
April 25, 2002
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