It’s classic misdirection, using a legitimate global concern as a justification for whaling, which does nothing to improve food security, and certainly not for the nations advancing the measure. The current effort aimed at overturning the moratorium is framed in terms of marine-based food security. Japan is no longer even a member of the body, having withdrawn from the IWC in 2019, but it exerts its influence through allies and proxies, including some nations that have benefitted from Japanese foreign aid and subsidies over the years. Japan is one of just three remaining countries that still allow commercial whaling the others are Norway and Iceland, but Iceland has signaled its intent to end commercial whaling by 2024. And this week and next, we’re defending it again at the 68 th meeting of the IWC in Portorož, Slovenia, where the determined campaign of Japan and its allies at the IWC to subvert the moratorium and other conservation measures continues. It’s come under attack again and again at the International Whaling Commission and in other contexts. We’ve never let up in our efforts to defend the moratorium.
By most estimates it’s saved hundreds of thousands of whales from the harpoon and prevented the extinction of several species and population groups. More than forty years since the global moratorium on commercial whaling was adopted, it is justly regarded as one of the most important conservation and animal protection measures of all time.
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