The Enviro’s are Howling over the Icelandic whale meat shipment to Japan

Environmentalists reacted angrily Tuesday to a controversial shipment of fin whale meat to Japan by an Icelandic whaling company, saying it flouted international conservation agreements. Iceland and Norway are the only nations that openly defy the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC’s) 1986 ban on hunting whales. Icelandic whalers caught 137 fin whales and 24 minke in 2014, according to the anti-whaling group WDC, compared to 134 fin whales and 35 minkes in 2013. Read the rest here 19:59

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