SHOCKING VIDEO OF ICELAND'S WHALING

Repost from @last_whaling_station and @hvalavinir (watch full video and support their documentary via their kickstarter! Link in their Instagram profile) MAST (Icelandic food and veterinary authority) has temporarily suspended the hunting of Hvalur boat 8 due to serious violations of animal welfare laws during the hunting of a fin whale. The suspension is valid until improvements have been made and verified by the Food and Fisheries Agency.During surveillance, it was found that the first harpoon shot by Hvalur 8 on September 7th hit the animal outside the specified target area, with the result that the animal was not killed immediately. In such cases, hunters must acc. new regulation to shoot the animal without delay again. It was not done until almost half an hour later and the whale died some minutes after that. Such a delay is considered a violation of the Animal Welfare Act and the regulation on whaling.Here is an interview with Hronn Jorundsdottir director of MAST last spring for the documentary.

Hvalur 8 is preparing to carry out yet more target practice - we've seen them out time and again this summer, shooting at static targets and spending a considerable amount of time lining them up for the perfect shot - and still the first whale harpooned this season saw two shots required and a time to death of over 30 minutes.
It simply is not possible to kill large whales humanely.

Five videos released by the Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority (MAST) show how horrific commercial whaling is in Iceland.

41% of whales hunted in 2022 didn’t die right away, the median time was over 11 minutes and the average was 17 minutes. One suffered for one hour, another whale for two hours. Hrönn Ólína Jörundsdóttir, the head of MAST, called it “unacceptable”.

Please, contact the Prime Minister of Iceland and the Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and tell them to end whaling now. This is ecocide and can not continue this summer.

Katrín Jakobsdóttir

Prime Minister

pmo@pmo.is

Svandís Svavarsdóttir

Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries in Iceland

svandiss@althingi.is

Source: https://www.lastwhalingstation.com/post/shocking-video-of-iceland-s-whaling

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