The phrase
"whale products" refers to items or substances that are made from or derived from whales, such as whale oil, whale meat, or whale bone.
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Moreover,
whale products sold via the Japanese website have been found harmful to human health.
Agree that the commercial sale
of whale products from scientific whaling operations must be prohibited.
These exports are worth an estimated US$ 50 million and Iceland's escalating whale hunts are clear and wilful abuses of the IWC's moratorium as well as the ban on international commercial trade
in whale products imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Over the past eight years, Hvalur has exported more than 5,000 tonnes of fin
whale products from Iceland to Japan, including a record single shipment of 2,071 tonnes in 2014.
In his bid to create a viable market for
fin whale products in Japan, he has used the resources of another company for which he serves as Chair of the Board — Icelandic fishing giant HB Grandi.
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of
whale products for sale on the Japanese website of Internet search engine company Yahoo! show how the California - based company profits from the venture, according to a new report released today that can be found by clicking here.
Iceland's fin exports to date are worth an estimated US$ 50 million and clearly undermine both the IWC moratorium and the ban on international commercial trade in fin
whale products imposed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
Internet retail giant Rakuten has announced it is terminating sales of
whale products through its Japanese marketplace Rakuten Ichiba and has given merchants 30 days to remove them...
«We welcome Amazon's action to
remove whale products from its Japanese website but urge Amazon to confirm it will enact a company - wide ban on the sale of all products derived from whales, dolphins or porpoises,» said Allan Thornton, president of EIA.
Lastly, as long as whaling nations hold reservations at CITES for the great whales, they can not be prevented from legally trading
whale products internationally.
The organizations also contend that delegates at GLACIER should consider how increased commercial shipping through the Arctic could encourage a greater flow of trade in
endangered whale products from commercial whaling.
In light of the recent passage of the vessel Winter Bay through Russia's Northern Sea Route (NSR), the organizations are calling on GLACIER delegates and President Obama — who will attend the conference — to ensure that an increasingly ice - free Arctic will not become a thoroughfare for trade in
commercial whale products.
In a 2009 interview with local news media, in a response to a question about the profitability of whaling, the owner of Iceland's fin whaling company indicated that while whale meat is the most valuable product,
processed whale products such as melted fat and pulverized whale bone could be turned into «meat meal and then mixed with other meal...» (link is in Icelandic).
Yahoo! Japan also sells hundreds of
whale products including internationally protected species such as fin whales illegally killed in Iceland, minke whales killed in the Antarctic whale sanctuary as well as Bryde's, sei and sperm whales killed in the Northwest Pacific.
The Environmental Investigation Agency, a non-profit environmental group based in Washington and London released new results of eight
whale products purchased recently from Yahoo! Japan Store sites and tested by a laboratory in Japan earlier this month.
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.
The government of Iceland announced last week that it is calling off its controversial whale hunt, not because of political pressure, but due to the lack of demand for whale meat and
other whale products.
Now on what essentially is a whale - hunting «break,» Iceland says that it will not issue whale - hunting quotas until market demand increases or it manages to get its tenterhooks on a license to
export whale products to Japan, one of the largest markets for whale meat (aka The Jackpot).
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Internet retail giant Rakuten has announced it is terminating sales of
whale products through its Japanese marketplace Rakuten Ichiba and has given merchants 30 days to remove them.
Tell Yahoo! Japan to stop supporting the cruelty and ban the sale of elephant ivory, dolphin and
whale products on all of its websites.
There are approximately 2,000 tons of frozen
fin whale products in storage in Iceland left from previous years.
Governments must work to ensure that their ports are permanently closed to the transit of
whale products from protected species.»
«The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which originally aimed to prevent the oversupply
of whale products but turned into a key instrument of whale conservation,» GEO - 5 notes, «can stand as another example.
Japan may yet find itself in the unfamiliar positionme time pursuing membership of the European Community, which bans whaling and trade
in whale products.
The Norwegians refuse to budge, while at the same time pursuing membership of the European Community, which bans whaling and trade in
whale products.
There were even secret codes transmitted between whalers such as «sink the prohibited whale», and
whale products were exchanged at sea with Japanese whalers for hard cash.
Hvalur exported
whale products to Japan via Canada in January 2014, and a massive shipment of 2,000 tons of whale products left Iceland on March 20, 2014, destined for Japan.
The shipments are part of a growing international trade in whale and
whale products — Japan is by far the dominant buyer — that has prompted growing criticism from the conservation group and other whale campaigners.
Despite a moratorium on commercial whaling and a ban on international trade of
whale products, countries such as Iceland continue to hunt whales for their markets.
Substitutes for
whale products are widely available, so there is no place for commercial whaling in today's economy.
EIA has produced this short campaign film in the style of Rakuten's own «We R...» commercial to raise awareness of its sales of elephant and
whale products...
Internet retail giant Rakuten was selling both elephant and
whale products — but recently committed to terminating all whale product sales!
The report shows how in March, Yahoo! Japan was found offering 249
whale products, including sashimi, bacon and canned whale meat, for sale on its fee - based sales and auction sites.
Ignoring the concerns of both the IWC and CITES, Norway resumed international trade in whale meat in 2002 and has exported more than 107 tonnes of
whale products to Iceland, Japan and the Faroe Islands in defiance of the CITES ban.
The Rakuten Group, via its wholly owned Japanese subsidiary Rakuten Ichiba, is the world's largest online trader in elephant ivory and
whale products.
Hundreds of
whale products, including endangered fin whale from Iceland and products from the whale and dolphin drive hunts in Taiji featured in the documentary The Cove, are also being sold on Rakuten Ichiba.