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...reaching the Arctic, she ended up on an auction block in the Norwegian port of Svolvaer, sold to the highest bidder for $2.50 a lb. This minke was the first of 160 hauled in by Norway this season for commercial sale. Each of these catches violated the worldwide ban on for-profit hunting established by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 1986. (More than 130 others were hunted legally for scientific purposes, although many environmentalists claim that the science involved was minimal.) All the catches were fully approved by the Norwegian government...
...being branded an international outlaw and threatened with an economic backlash, Norway insists that the whaling will go on. Its resolve is strengthened by the confidence that other countries may follow: Iceland, which quit the IWC last year over the same issue, says it will resume whaling next summer, ban or no. Japan will abide by the rules for now, but has lobbied the IWC to allow limited whaling. All three nations argue that the current policy is governed by emotion, not rational science. They contend that a careful harvest of relatively plentiful species like the minke is harmless. Says...
...human need for whale meat and oils. The development of efficient "factory ships" in the 1920s almost wiped out the leviathans, leading ultimately to formation of the IWC in 1946. The commission tried for more than three decades to protect selected species before it finally decided that a total ban on commercial whaling was necessary...
...hunting ban has done nothing to eliminate other human activities that also threaten the animals. Commercial fisheries deplete the whales' feeding grounds and disrupt their breeding areas and nurseries. Scientists suspect that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales' immune systems and drive down their birthrates. Observes Scott Kraus, a marine biologist with the New England Aquarium: "The public gets hung up on whaling, but what's really worse is what we flush down the toilet...
...decision on the future of Harvard's ROTC ties will have to wait until the Faculty can meet and discuss President Clinton's new compromise on the issue of the ban on gays in the military, President Neil I., Rudenstine said in an interview yesterday...