When the moratorium came into effect in 1986, Norway initially undertook a small-scale scientific hunt of minke whales. In 1993, however, it announced that it would resume commercial whaling under its ...

Japan justifies hunting whales by claiming that they aren ... The country plans on killing 333 minke whales by the end of next summer, and to continue their whaling program for at least another ...

In 2023, researchers captured two juvenile minke whales off the coast of Norway ... predator since they use echolocation ...

The government set a quota of 1052 minke whales, (up from 797 ... Norway is one of three countries to hunt the "great whales"; the others are Japan and Iceland, which claim their catches are ...

Update: No commercial whaling for fin whales—a threatened species—occurred in Iceland in 2019, 2020, and 2021. In 2022, the Hvalur whaling company resumed activities, and 148 fin whales were killed.

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Japan has "temporarily halted" its much-criticized plan for a humpback whale hunt in the seas near Antarctica, said the chief Japanese government spokesman on Friday.