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Article: NORWEGIAN WHALING VESSELS FAIL TO MEET 2005 QUOTAS.
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- Europe Environment
- Article date:
- November 10, 2005
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Norwegian whaling vessels, which this year were given the biggest quota in over a decade, have failed to reach their kill targets, revealed the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Helga Pedersen, on November 1, a day after the 2005 whaling season closed. The 30 active vessels only harpooned 639 of the set quota of 796 minke whales, said Halvard Johansen, a senior ministerial official, adding that "this does not mean that quotas will reduced next year". Norwegian whaling vessels, which generally request significant increases in their quotas, failed to reach their targets this year due to adverse weather conditions around Jan Mayen island, north east of ...