Valid days after the Norwegian whaling commercial announced that 575 minke whales had been killed this season (the most in 5 years), fresh documents show that whalers are struggling to promote the whale meat — and even offloading it for dogs food.
In August, Hopen Fisk, a company essentially based totally totally in the northern Lofoten space, shipped 6 metric tons (~13,000 lbs.) of whale meat to a tourism company providing sled dogs excursions of Svalbard, in accordance with documents got by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) working with NOAH, Norway’s ideal animal protection NGO and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC).
The Norwegian Atmosphere Agency accredited the shipment to Inexperienced Dog Svalbard and a person sled dogs racer. It turn out to be sent by Nor Lines, a subsidiary of the Icelandic company Samskip, even supposing Samskip pledged in 2013 to stop transporting whale meat, in accordance with AWI.
Susan Millward, director of AWI’s marine animal program, stated:
“Norway’s whaling titans and government leaders proceed to perpetuate the fallacious yarn that home search recordsdata from for whale merchandise is rising. In actual fact, the very whales that succor back the ocean wholesome and fight climate replace are being fed to the dogs.”
Hopen Fisk’s favorite supervisor acknowledged final month that the company does provide whale meat for dogs food, in accordance with a document by NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Company.
The article cites statistics that easiest one-third of the practically 600 tons (~1.3 million lbs.) of whale meat estimated to had been produced from the 2021 searching season turn out to be equipped to stores in Norway.
Closing 365 days, 164 tons (~362,000 lbs.) of whale meat turn out to be readily accessible to bewitch in Norway, when put next with the 220 tons (~485,000 lbs.) sent to Japan, in accordance with NRK.
Furthermore, Norwegian whalers admire admitted that dumping unused whale (meat, blubber, bone, and tons others.) in the sea is favorite phrase.
Vanessa Williams-Grey, protection supervisor at Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), stated:
“How will we worth the lives of these gentle giants so cheaply after they play the sort of huge role in mitigating climate breakdown? We want more whales, no longer fewer — killing whales is no longer only cruel, it is uninteresting!”
