Finland, Sweden urge Norway to lower whaling quota
AFP, June, 2006
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HELSINKI (AFP) — Finland and Sweden have urged Norway to reduce its whaling quota for this year, arguing that Oslo's annual quota hikes could hurt chances of finding a solution to an international dispute over its whale hunt practice.
Norway is the only country in the world that allows commercial whale hunting, a practice it resumed in 1993 despite a 1986 international moratorium.
This year the Scandinavian country authorised its whalers to harpoon 1,052 minke whales, up from 796 in 2005, out of a total minke population that it estimates at more than 100,000 in the North Atlantic.
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"The environment ministers of Finland and Sweden urge Norway to retract its decision to intensify the minke whale hunt," a statement from the Finnish government said Friday.
In a letter addressed to Norwegian Fisheries Minister Helga Pedersen, the Finnish and Swedish environment ministers Jan-Erik Enestam ...
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