Whaling talks said stuck on compromise deal

Source: Associated Press

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The International Whaling Commission on Monday began discussing a possible compromise deal that would reduce the number of whales killed each year.

However, environmental groups expressed little hope of a breakthrough in the two-decade dispute at the start of IWC's weeklong annual meeting in Portugal's Madeira islands. Japan, Iceland and Norway run commercial whaling operations which kill around 2,000 whales a year and they are reluctant to give up the trade.

"I don't think this is the meeting of the breakthrough," Remi Parmentier of the U.S.-based Pew Whales Conservation Project said in a telephone interview from Madeira.

Greenpeace whaling campaigner Sara Holden feared the talks would fail to end the long-standing stalemate.

"My main concern is that the delegates here are simply going to sit on their hands content to talk for another year whilst whales continue to die," Holden told AP Television News.



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And if anyone simply has to whale as a part of their "culture"; get a new culture. End it.

Do not buy Toyota's, Sony's, Nokia products or Icelandic cod until the whaling ends.

Boycott the crap out of them until it hurts. Tell your friends.

to pressure the Japanese to stop their illegal whaling activities in the southern oceans. Pretty ballsy, considering Japan is their chief importer of goods.

In other Japanese whaling news, Sea Shepherd is looking to buy a better, faster boat to take with them with the Steve Irwin next season. Suck it, Japan.

Thanks, IWC for once again proving yourself to be largely worthless.

Iceland and Norway...never did catch those Agenda 21 folks, did you? Still out there...may they strike again.

The Arctic island of Greenland is assuming self-rule, in the latest step towards independence from Denmark.

The move follows a referendum on greater autonomy in November. It will see Greenland take a greater share of revenues from its natural resources.


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Those natives hold whale hunting as sacred.

As long as they don't exploit the bea$t$ for other then personal use.