Norway Resumes Whaling in Defiance of an International Ban
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Crime, Law, Legal History, Courts, Environmental Issues
- Subcategories: Animals, Endangered Species, Zoology, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: Scandinavian History
- Geographical Location: Norway, Scandinavia
- Date: 1993
Article abstract: Based on Norwegian interpretation of the evidence for minke whale abundance in the North Atlantic, and despite the International Whaling Commission’s ban on commercial whaling, Norway resumed its commercial hunt in 1993.
Summary of Event
Norway has a rich and venerable whaling tradition. Four-thousand-year-old Norwegian rocks are etched with pictures of men killing whales and dolphins. Subsistence whaling in the North Atlantic was probably developed and spread by the Norse. Although the Basques around the Bay of Biscay in Spain and...
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