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Plan to Legalize Whaling Considered
February 23, 2010A draft plan unveiled today proposes to legalize commercial whaling for the first time since a 1986 moratorium made it illegal to hunt whales for commercial purposes. The plan was drafted by member countries of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), an international body which meets annually to set global policy on whaling and whale conservation. Despite the moratorium, three of the IWC's 88 member countries, Japan, Norway, and Iceland, have continued to hunt whales. In recent years, Japan has aggressively recruited votes at the IWC to lift the ban on commercial whaling. This action has split the IWC between pro-conservation and pro-hunting countries. Full release.