Pro-whaling nations try to rebound after early defeats

Japan and other pro-whaling nations will today try to rebound from two early defeats to win a majority at the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting and pave the way for commercial whale hunting, which was banned 20 years ago.

Joji Morishita, Japan’s chief delegate to the IWC conference in St. Kitts, said the organisation was not meeting its mandate to regulate the sustainable hunting of whales and needs to be “normalised”.