GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19 (UPI) -- Japan has failed to convince the International Whaling Commission to let it hunt in Japanese coastal waters this year, whaling officials said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Iceland has come under fire from 25 countries and the European Commission for its resumption of commercial whaling.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Iceland plans to begin commercial whaling, defying the international moratorium that has been in place for 20 years.
BERGEN, Norway, May 22 (UPI) -- Norway's annual whale hunt is yielding fewer whales than last year, which has some anti-whaling forces worrying about a population decline.
LONDON, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- Despite a 20-year-old international moratorium on whale hunting, three countries have increased their quotas to more than 2,000 whales this year.
ULSAN, South Korea, June 23 (UPI) -- The International Whaling Commission has rejected a bid by Japan to resume commercial hunting of minke whales in the Pacific Ocean.
SORRENTO, Italy, July 21 (UPI) -- The International Whaling Commission Wednesday rejected a number of Japanese proposals, including abolishing a whale sanctuary in the Antarctic Ocean.
OSLO, Norway, May 11 (UPI) -- Norway's whalers are hunting in the Barents Sea, the 11th year in a row since the Scandinavian nation resumed the practice, the BBC reported Tuesday.
TOKYO, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Japan will offer 400 tons of whale meat for sale following its summer season of "research" culling, the Xinhua news agency reported Thursday.
BERLIN, June 20 (UPI) -- Japan's bid to triple its annual whale quota has been denied by the International Whaling Commission in Berlin.
