Iceland’s government says it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year.

Iceland will not be hunting fin whales this summer, following a decision by Hvalur hf., the only company in the country ...

Commercial hunting of fin whales can resume in Iceland but with stricter requirements on hunting methods and increased supervision, the North Atlantic island nation's government said Thursday.

A fin whale has been filmed taking more than two hours to die after being harpooned by whalers in Iceland. The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority released an edited video of the hunt, but ...

A fin whale is seen stranded, possibly stuck on its belly, in a shallow fjord on the western coast at Vejle, Denmark, on June 16, 2010. Commercial hunting of fin whales can resume in Iceland with ...

By Spoorthy Raman On Dec. 6, Iceland’s caretaker government announced it had issued five-year licenses to hunt fin and minke ...

Iceland's government on Tuesday said it had suspended the hunting of fin whales until Aug. 31, after a report by Iceland's Food and Veterinary Authority concluded that killing the whales took ...

Iceland resumed hunting fin whales, which can reach lengths of over 20 metres (65 feet), in 2006 after a 20-year pause. Sign up here. The International Whaling Commission - a global body that ...

Fin whales can be a beautiful sight in the ocean, but unfortunately, they face many threats, one of which is humans. According to Echo Watch, Iceland has given a whaling license to kill fin whales ...

Iceland will suspend hunting of fin whales until September over breaches of the country’s animal welfare rules. Fisheries’ minister Svandis Svavarsdottir said in a website statement she ...

Iceland's government said Tuesday that it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year. The quota was half that of 2023 ...