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Trump’s Ambassador Nominee to Iceland Apologizes for Statehood Joke
21 Jan 2026 15:14 GMT
… don’t land!
The Icelandic Foreign Minister, Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, … the news, he’s fishing for something unreasonable!
Greenland … Atlantic.
Meanwhile, anti-whaling activists in Iceland are also making … on ships to prevent whale hunts. Talk about living …
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Greenlander Opposes America Taking Over His Island Because He Hunts ‘Cute’ Whales, Seals
16 Jan 2026 01:17 GMT
… settlement with hunting and fishing in its heart and … capture, or killing of whales, seals and other marine mammals … high seas. While commercial whaling is banned in both … allow commercial whaling are Japan, Norway and Iceland.
Two whales underwater (Digital …
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What It Means To Lose A Cod War: Visiting Hull 50 Years After The Decline Of Fishing
14 Jan 2026 20:54 GMT
… bus would sometimes take Icelandic fishermen straight from St Andrew … weren’t going whaling or deep sea fishing, and you … newspaper screenshots.
Forty Icelandic fishermen from Akureyri had come to … between the British and Icelandic fishermen now. They’d all …
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Scientists Just Found a Dangerous Virus in Arctic Whales Using Drones
23 Dec 2025 08:26 GMT
… sperm whales across the Northeast Atlantic. This included waters off Norway, Iceland … cetacean morbillivirus is circulating in whale populations north of the Arctic … , along with interactions with seabirds, fishing boats, and shipping traffic, increases …
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Shaky Ground? Iceland’s Delicate Balance Of Tourism, Science And Survival
15 Dec 2025 15:20 GMT
… threatens native species and disrupts fisheries. “We study how local populations … want to see whales in their natural environment, and Iceland is one … , as he photographs a humpback whale swimming near the boat. “Each …
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Science The Cool Down Fishermen stunned after making once-in-a-lifetime sighting off coast: 'Deserves recognition'
14 Dec 2025 09:28 GMT
… oldest fishing towns, spotted a pod of six endangered Arabian humpback whales … of pressure from commercial whaling.
The global commercial whaling boom reached its … from in Norway, Iceland, and Japan — allowing endangered whale species, such as …
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Fishermen stunned after making once-in-a-lifetime sighting off coast: 'Deserves recognition'
09 Dec 2025 09:31 GMT
… endangered Arabian humpback whales was sighted by local fishermen on Nov 1 … of pressure from commercial whaling.
The global commercial whaling boom reached its … from in Norway, Iceland, and Japan — allowing endangered whale species, such as …
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On the Great Ocean Road – the pygmy blue whales of Timor-Leste
12 Nov 2025 13:06 GMT
… blue corridor
Whales are frequently observed along three main ‘whale swimways’ following … Western Australia
Iceland, Japan and Norway still engage in commercial whaling. Meanwhile … local delicacies such as dried fish and grilled seafood.
More great …
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'We promised not to eat each other': Adrift for 38 days in the Pacific after their boat was sunk by killer whales, a British family of five endured sharks and storms while drinking turtle blood to survive
08 Nov 2025 03:41 GMT
… been attacked by three killer whales.
Within moments, the Lucette … astonished crew of a Japanese fishing trawler, they had drifted … Dougal. ‘We’d befriended an Icelandic family who insisted on giving … the water, we could see fish swimming underneath us. Birds …
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Iceland resumed whaling, but no one seems to want to do it anymore
27 Oct 2025 22:15 GMT
… commercial whaling — sometimes, even endangered whales. In 2022, Iceland killed 148 fin whales.
Surveys … Icelanders oppose the whale hunts by a thin margins In 2023, then Fisheries …