Norway just doesn't know when to stop
Is national political power plays more important than international agreements. On the eve of the Copenhagen climate talks and in the month after their own health authorities have issued fresh warnings over eating whale meat, the Norwegian Fisheries Ministry has issued massive quota increases for whaling in Norway. Having failed to take more than 500 whales this year, the Norwegian Government has allocated a quota almost two and half times the size of the actual number of whales taken this year - it would appear one part of the Norwegian Government doesn't know, or is disregarding, what another part is saying. Illogical, bad for conservation, bad for Norwegians and bad for Norway politically






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