Whale hunt gets go ahead from Icelandic government

Whale hunt gets go ahead from Icelandic government :

"Greenpeace today strongly criticised the Icelandic government' s decision to issue quotas to hunt whales for the third year running. The government has just granted permission for 39 minke whales to be killed in the 2005 hunt. The Icelandic go ahead comes just 2 weeks after so-called 'scientific whaling' was condemned by the International Whaling Commission at its 2005 meeting in Ulsan, Korea.

Greenpeace International oceans campaigner John Frizell said: 'Iceland's whaling programme provides no money, no useful science, and could seriously damage both the country's tourist industry and its international reputation. What's more, domestic public opinion increasingly supports whale watching rather than whale killing.'"

What use are the whales to Iceland if they really have no real use for them.

Support whale watching and help support these organizations that are trying to eliminate whaling.

Gary