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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Do we have any experts in the fishing industry on lemmy? Is whaling really that profitable? Because it's weird to go back on something like whaling if it isn't profitable. Like I know the Japanese are subsidizing it heavily as a point of national pride, but that can hardly be the issue here.
It isn't really profitable. The meat isn't really in demand and they harvest far fewer than the limit that's set by the government. This interview with a wailer from freakenomics was interesting and touched on a lot of these issues.
Here is the freakanomics episode