The oceans cover 70% of the planet and NAMMCO provides an essential forum for unrestricted discussion of the interrelationship between humans and marine mammals.
"Eating marine mammals is our national identity," said the participants from Greenland. Their unity of viewpoint impressed this first-time participant.
Lessons in sustainability at NAMMCO showed why the whaling issue is not easily tidied away by declaring whether one is "for" or "against" hunting the animals.
More than 10 years have passed since the 2009 premiere of the Oscar-winning film The Cove, which is critical of the small cetacean fisheries (commonly called...
On the last day of 2018 the editorial board of The New York Times (NYT) issued one of its ex cathedra statements telling Japan and...
