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BBC NewsPage last updated at 15:22 GMT, Monday, 2 June 2008 16:22 UK
Whalemeat traders 'defying ban'By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
Icelandic and Norwegian companies have begun
exporting whalemeat to Japan.
About 60 tonnes of meat from fin whales caught
in the 2006 Icelandic hunt was reportedly sent
with a much smaller amount of minke meat from
Norway.
Industry sources told the BBC that the meat
had already arrived in Japan, although a
Japanese official said no request to import
it had been received.
-snip-The fin whale is listed as Endangered on the
internationally recognised Red List of
Threatened Species.
-snip-Read more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7431568.stm
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