By Henry Workman Marine Science Today Writer In a message to Congress on Thursday President Obama announced: “I am not directing the Secretary of the Treasury to impose trade measures on Icelandic products for the whaling activities that led to the certification by the Secretary of Commerce.” This was in response to a deadline [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer It was revealed today that Iceland’s commercial whaling industry exported an additional 133 metric tons of endangered fin whale products to Japan in July of this year. “There is a line in the sand that Iceland has just crossed,” said Allan Thornton, President of the Environmental Investigation Agency. “The Icelandic killing [...]
Henry Workman Marine Science Today Writer Whaling, a longtime source of economic independence for the nation of Iceland, is at the center of an ongoing debate which puts economic policy in direct conflict with environmental concerns. Despite international efforts made to improve the status of endangered species such as the fin whale, Iceland’s commercial whale [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer A new study published on June 27 in Marine Ecology Progress Series shows that, for the first time, a small population of southern right whales is finding its way back to the ancestral calving grounds of mainland New Zealand. More than a century ago, these whales were hunted to local extinction–so thoroughly that they [...]
New survey explores the attitudes of Japanese students towards the whaling controversy.
Scientists have documented first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since 1965.
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