Which nations still approve of whale hunting?
Which “approve” is difficult to answer. The International Whaling Commission (IWC) is the international body with management responsibility for the world’s great whales, there are 60 member nations. Over the past decade whaling nations, mainly Japan, have attempted to overturn the moratorium on all out commercial whaling by pushing the development of the Revised Management Scheme (RMS), a 23-nation RMS Working Group was established to study the matter, the Group includes five whaling nations, including the United States (where aboriginal subsistence whaling still occurs), six pro-whaling nations, five “shaky” nations, six anti-whaling nations and only one staunchly anti-RMS nation. So you could say that 11 IWC nations ‘approve’ of whaling in one form or another.But not all nations are members of the IWC, the Faroe Islands notably and those “pro” and “shaky” nations include developing nations where Japan has been accused of blatant bribery on a large scale. Nations that allow “subsisten
