Iceland sets major whaling quota - BBC

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Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Iceland sets major whaling quota
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Iceland's fisheries ministry has issued whaling
quotas substantially enlarged from those in previous
years, as the government prepares to leave office.

The quotas would allow catching of 100 minke whales
and 150 fin whales annually for the next five years.

The incoming interim administration is likely to be
led by parties opposed to whaling, and may cancel
the move.

The move comes just after details emerged of an
eventual possible deal between pro- and anti-
whaling nations.

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Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7854705.stm

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1. conservatives deregulating for the continual bloodlust for wealth

conservatives do seem to be consistant in that regard. Also very consistant with their views of abuse on nature for their own selfish purposes, as if it all belonged to them and nobody else.

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2. Iceland's conservative government has just been kicked out

And the center-left party has taken over. The increase in the whaling quota is due to the complete collapse of Iceland's economy: banking and computerized flipping paper did them in, so they are purposefully going back to the "old ways" - such as whaling.

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3. That's Not What I Read

"This is basically an act of sabotage, an act of bitterness, against the incoming government," said Arni Finnsson from the Iceland Nature Conservation Association (INCA).

Probable interim leader Ingibjorg Gisladottir is against the hunt

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4. Gisladottir is going to have a hard time selling a hunting ban to the Icelandic public

Maybe a year ago Icelanders would have been against the new whaling. But today, now that everyone is losing their jobs? I doubt it.