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Whaling conference is deadlocked
AGADIR, Morocco, (UPI) -- Pro-whaling countries and their opponents meeting in Morocco may be unable to reach a compromise, delegates to the International Whaling Commission say.
Two days of private talks have yielded little progress over a compromise package cutting Japan's Antarctic hunt and placing existing whaling programs under international oversight, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Delegates to the commission have told the British broadcaster the talks that began formally two years ago should probably be extended for a third year.
Even though commercial whaling has been outlawed since 1986, a number of countries still hunt whales in defiance of the ban.
Iceland and Norway have lodged official objections to the ban and continue commercial whaling while Japan employs a regulation that permits hunting for scientific purposes.
The draft proposal drawn up at this year's meeting would see Japan's self-awarded quota of 935 minke whales cut to 200 in five years.
AGADIR, Morocco, (UPI) -- Pro-whaling countries and their opponents meeting in Morocco may be unable to reach a compromise, delegates to the International Whaling Commission say.
Two days of private talks have yielded little progress over a compromise package cutting Japan's Antarctic hunt and placing existing whaling programs under international oversight, the BBC reported Wednesday.
Delegates to the commission have told the British broadcaster the talks that began formally two years ago should probably be extended for a third year.
Even though commercial whaling has been outlawed since 1986, a number of countries still hunt whales in defiance of the ban.
Iceland and Norway have lodged official objections to the ban and continue commercial whaling while Japan employs a regulation that permits hunting for scientific purposes.
The draft proposal drawn up at this year's meeting would see Japan's self-awarded quota of 935 minke whales cut to 200 in five years.