
Iceland to end whaling from 2024 amid controversy and falling demand
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Iceland says it will end whaling from 2024 amid dwindling demand and continuing controversy.
"There are few justifications to authorize whale hunting beyond 2024," when current quotas expire, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Svandís Svavarsdóttir said in an op-ed in Friday's Morgunblaðið newspaper.
The minister wrote it was "undisputed" that whale hunting had not had much economic significance to Iceland in recent years, with no big whale caught in the last three years, except for one minke whale in 2021.
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