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The return of whale hunting in Iceland stirs public debate.

Lacking market opportunities, the last whaling company still in operation decided not to use its fishing quotas for 2024 and 2025.

But during summer 2026, the company Hvalur hf. killed more than 50 whales, reigniting discussions over a total ban.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260907-the-return-of-whale-hunting-in-iceland-stirs-public-debate?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Iceland #Whaling #Fishing #Hunting #WhaleHunt #Hvalur

The Grindadráp

In the Faroe Islands, the grindadráp drives pods of pilot whales into shallow bays, where they are killed and their meat and blubber distributed. Faroese defenders describe a regulated communal food tradition reaching back centuries; opponents condemn the suffering and killing of highly social cetaceans. Images of bays turned red have made the hunt internationally notorious, while Sea Shepherd campaigns have intensified pressure for its abolition. #whaling

“The Captain of the Polestar” is possibly Doyle’s finest supernatural story – & owes much of its atmosphere to Doyle’s own experiences as a 20-year-old medical student, serving as ship’s surgeon on the Peterhead whaler the SS Hope

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/06/arthurconandoyle-arctic

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #whaling #arctic #ArthurConanDoyle