A new shipment of 1,700 tonnes of whale meat has been dispatched from Kristján Loftsson’s company Hvalur, in Iceland, to Japan where he has used his own funds to set up a company to import and market fin whale meat as a delicacy. This shipment adds to over 5,500 tonnes of whale products exported to Japan recent years
The fin whaling season has once again come to an end in Iceland, this year with 137 endangered fin whales slaughtered for profit. A joint report, Slayed in Iceland, and film was released ahead of a meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), exposing the scale of the hunt and overseas trade
In May, EIA and fellow NGO The Black Fish presented a paper to the Scientific Committee meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) highlighting the threat of illegal drift netting to populations of whales, dolphins and porpoises whereupon this information will be relayed to European ministers
Following our news alerts last week concerning the brutal killing of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands, we are shocked to learn through Faroese media that a further 136 pilot whales have been killed in Husavik, Sandoy Island
The Environmental Investigation Agency and eight other NGOs have written to the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands, Kaj Leo Johannesen, to express their deep concerns about the high number of pilot whales killed there so far this year. In the year to August 24, 590 long-finned pilot whales have been killed.
The largest direct hunt of any whale, dolphin and porpoise in the world – described by International Whaling Commission (IWC) scientists as “clearly unsustainable” – traditionally commences in Japan on November 1 each year