A raw documentary recently air out in Norway has revealed that 90 percent of the minke whales legally hunted in Norwegian weewee each year are distaff and “ almost all ” are meaning .
The documentary , Slaget om kvalenorBattle of Agony , was shown on the public telecasting meshwork NRK , and showed graphical scene of the whales being cut clear and the fetuses removed .
Now conservationists are overturned , not only due to the savagery of hunting of fraught females but also due to the free-and-easy rejection displayed by Norwegian huntsman of the International Whaling Commission ’s 1986 ban .
" Whale hunting is now even more unacceptable , " the head of Greenpeace Norway , Truls Gulowsen , told AFP . " On the one script because it ’s in intrusion of an international Bachelor of Arts in Nursing but also because … it ’s indefensible from the point in time of view of the animate being ’s well - being to hound them during an advanced stage of gestation . "
The fact that Norway is one of two body politic – coupled with Iceland – that ignore the 1986 international memoranda on the whaling ban is already controversial . Areport last yearby OceanCare , Pro Wildlife , and the Animal Welfare Institute revealed Norway is the top whale country in the world , kill more of the marine mammals than Iceland and Japan commingle in 2014 .
allot to Egil Ole Oen , a vet who narrow in giant hunting : " raft of slaughtered beast are sent to the butchery when they are pregnant . "
" We have a professional approach and therefore we do n’t think about it , " Dag Myklebust , captain of the whaling vessel Kato , added . That the majority of whales were pregnant was “ a sign of sound health . ”
Norway is not the only country to trace and kill meaning female person . Last class , Japan occur under force per unit area when photos issue of 333 minke giant carcasses on one of their whaling " research " vessels , 230 of which were female and 90 percent of those were set up to be pregnant .
This year , Norway has upped its effectual hunting quota from 880 whales in 2016 to 999 for 2017 . Oslo has argued that the minke giant universe is potent enough to defend its hunting , with Norway ’s fisheries minister recently herald he wanted to repeat the issue of minke whales killed to 2,000 and deal the nitty-gritty to the EU – despite the fact few mass in Norway actually eat whale meat . The current estimation for global universe of minke whales is around 1 million .
Conversely , Iceland ’s largest whale company , Hvalur , announced last weekthat it will be sit out this whale time of year due to difficulty with Nipponese customs duty over importee of the heavyweight meat , imply the company is running at a personnel casualty . Almost all of the fin whale meat capture by Iceland ’s whaling industry go to Japan . Although this will give the heavyweight a break , woefully it ’s economically , and not environmentally , motivated .
