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Wildlife & Ecology Issues: Discuss Iceland to Resume Commercial Whaling in the General Diving Forums forums: can someone please explain where the commercialisation is from hunting whales? a couple of posts above state that whale meat ...

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Old 18-10-06, 05:26 PM
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can someone please explain where the commercialisation is from hunting whales?

a couple of posts above state that whale meat ends as pet food in japan and that there is not a consumer demand for it. yet, iceland would like to export to japan.

have i missed something?
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Iceland not that big, so I would guess we could take them?

I say send the troops in!


We should sent in the RN to ram their whaling ships just as they as rammed our ships/ trawlers during the cod war in the seventies
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