Iceland is one of the last countries to still have some interest in commercial whaling although this article from 2022 suggested it was on the way out.
The company Hvalur is described here.
It seemed that they were turning away from the practice of hunting the cetaceans and looking at whales more as a tourist opportunity instead - taking people out to see them alive rather than dead. At the prices shown below, that seems like quite a good business, although I'm not sure how much a whale goes for these days to be fair...
Hvalur is the Icelandic word for whale.
A recent update comes here - I wondered whether this was now the end again:
The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) has temporarily halted the operations of the whaling vessel Hvalur 8, citing severe breaches of animal welfare protocols during the capture of a fin whale.https://t.co/kf1V5D9AQa
— @Iceland_Review (@Iceland_Review) September 14, 2023
Some information from this website here on the resumption of hunting for Fin Whales in 2022.
Source: https://us.whales.org/our-goals/stop-whaling/whaling-in-iceland/
A controversial area.
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