Norway slams whaling critics

[minkyboodle]

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway hit back on Sunday at 12 nations led by Britain for urging an end to whale hunts, saying a plan to raise catches to the highest in two decades in 2006 would not damage stocks of the giant mammals.

"The charges are baseless ... They have failed to do their homework," Norway's whaling commissioner Karsten Klepsvik told Reuters of the call for an end to whaling on Thursday by nations including France, Germany, Australia and Brazil.
British Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw said on behalf of the 12 that an increase in Norway's quota to 1,052 whales in 2006 "is premature and not based on the best scientific advice." Britain's embassy in Oslo handed in the formal protest.

Norway, which broke with a global moratorium on commercial whaling in 1993, has harpooned about 750 minke whales each year in recent years and the 2006 will be the highest since the 1980s. The whales are eaten as steaks in Norway.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060423/sc_nm/environment_whales_norway_dc_1

[Coventina]

1. Whaling gives the otherwise liberal Norway a black eye.

Dammit, give it up already!

:mad:

[xchrom]

3. there are no words to describe how i feel about the japanese and

the norwegians over this issue.

barbaric is a good place to start.

[brentspeak]

2. Cold-hard, ruthless capitalism always trumps social liberalism

Just ask the DINOs who supported NAFTA.

[GOPNotForMe]

4. F*** Norway. I hope a whale eats Klepsvik. nt