South Korea’s plan to resume hunting whales for research purposes has drawn immediate protests from non-whaling nations and environment groups that suspect the plans may be a cover for commercial whaling.
South Korean officials announced the plan to the International Whaling Commission during an IWC meeting this week in Panama, according to Seoul’s Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
The whaling would be aimed only at studying the types and amounts of fish whales eat because fishermen complain that an increasing number of whales are consuming large amounts of fish stocks, ministry officials said Thursday…