Iceland Government Issues License to Continue Whaling in 2024
- Fisheries minister licenses the island’s only whaling firm
- Hvalur hf is allowed to kill 128 fin whales until year-end
A ship transports a fin whale off its hull to a processing plant in Hvalfjordur, Iceland.
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Iceland granted a whaling license to the only company in the island nation still carrying out the practice.
Hvalur hf will be permitted to continue whaling until the end of the season this year, Iceland’s Fisheries Minister Bjarkey Olsen Gunnarsdottir, said in a statement on Tuesday.