Japan: Whaling Debate
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(13 years, 9 months ago)
Lords ChamberOur views and the views of other member states have been made fairly clear to Iceland. Put very simply, it has been advised that whaling is possibly incompatible with EU membership.
My Lords, I welcome what my noble friend said. Is he aware of anything at all of scientific interest that has emerged from the Japanese practice of capturing whales for allegedly scientific purposes?
My Lords, I am not aware, and that is why the words I used in my original Answer were “so-called scientific whaling”.