AWI Executive Director Susan Millward said: «Iceland's Hvalur company continues to whale with impunity and has managed to
ship whale products to Japan via countries that have strong anti-whaling laws, such as the United States.
Not exact matches
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and National Marine Fisheries Service submitted comment letters and data
products encouraging the Coast Guard to consider routes that may also reduce the threat of
ship strikes to large
whales.
The Northern Sea Route along that coast has always been a busy passageway for coastal
shipping — and is slowly becoming more of a global route for
products moving between Europe and Asia (including Icelandic
whale meat; more on that later today).
«Fin
whales continue to be slaughtered and
shipped from Iceland to Japan, undermining the moratorium on commercial
whaling and ban on international commercial trade in fin
whale products,» said Amy Zets, Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) policy analyst.