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Brundtland's announcement to resume whale hunting comes during the week of the International Whaling Commission's annual meeting. Originallydesigned to set quotas for whaling countries, thecommission now serves primarly as a conservationorganization, according to Philip J. Clapham,director of population studies at the Center forCoastal studies...
Iceland, Norway and Japan--the world's threeprincipal whaling nations--now say new scientificevidence proves that certain whale populations arenot in danger of extinction, and would be unharmedby regulated commercial whaling, Clapham said...
...whale issue has become less a scientificissue and more a moral... issue," said MinetteJohnson, species recovery assistant at the Centerfor Marine Conservation. "We're very disappointedthat Norway is making that kind of statement,"Johnson said...
Clapham said the whale-hunting nations have"some science to back them up--it's a bitequivocal...
...data Norway is using is unreliable, hesaid, because it is difficult to achieve anaccurate count of the whale population. Whalesconstantly move and migrate, making it impossibleto track an entire species at once, Johnson said...