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...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...
Norway's ecnomony does not rely on commercialwhaling, Palese said. And Miller said the onlydemand for whale meat worldwide comes fromaffluent Japanese consumers. Internationaltreaties ban the trade of minke whales, he said...
Brundtland's move may impede Norway's pendingapplication to join the European Community, whichfor bids whale hunting, Clapham said...